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Jaqpot - An open-source web platform for creating, using, testing and sharing predictive models in nano-informatics
20 Jun 2019 | Contributor(s): Haralambos Sarimveis
Nano WG June 20, 2019Computational models that predict physicochemical properties, biokinetics or adverse biological effects of Engineered Nanomaterials (ENMs) are becoming increasingly important to support risk assessment and safety-by-design. This is primarily due to cost-saving and...
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Life after MOOCS: Online Science Education Needs a New Revolution
03 Feb 2017 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Phillip Compeau
ITCR Monthly PI Meeting, February 3, 2017 Presentation by Phillip Compeau (Carnegie Mellon U.)
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Multiclass cancer diagnosis using tumor gene expression signatures
10 Nov 2014 | Downloads
Experiment Description: The optimal treatment of patients with cancer depends on establishing accurate diagnoses by using a complex combination of clinical and histopathological data. In some instances, this task is difficult or impossible because of atypical clinical...
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NANOANALYTICS OF EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES – Standards for isolation, characterization and reporting
26 May 2017 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Shivani Sharma
Nano WG presentation on May 25, 2017. Presentation by Dr. Shivani Sharma, Associate Director of the Nano Pico Characterization Lab, UCLA. Nanoscale characterization of exosomes and their use disease biomarkers and drug delivery agents
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NanoInformatics Knowledge Commons Curation Team: Building the Data Dictionary to Enrich Data Curation
11 Jul 2018 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Jaleesia Amos, Yuan Tian, Mervi Heiskanen
Nano WG Presentation, May 31st, 2018 Organized storing of data using informed-decision making to determine what information should be curated, when data curation is complete, and how to identify high-quality data. Purpose of NIKC structure & curation process: tell the story of...
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NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, and caNanoLab: A Data Repository for Cancer Nanomedicines
27 Nov 2018 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Luisa Russell, Mervi Heiskanen
Nano WG presentation November15, 2018 NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer –Structure–Achievements–Scientific FocuscaNanoLab–Intro to Platform–Data Curation–User Statistics–Future Directions
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Next-Generation Clustered Heat Maps (NG-CHM)
07 Oct 2015 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Weinstein John, Bradley Broom
Clustered Heat Maps (CHMs) have been referred to as the ubiquitous visual icons of post-genomic biology -- the most frequent type of visualization for large molecular profiling databases. However, “traditional” CHMs are static images -- a serious limitation. Accordingly, we have now...
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Notes from the ITCR Annual Meeting May 27-28, 2015
10 Jun 2015 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Ishwar Chandramouliswaran, Juli Klemm
Notes from the ITCR Annual Meeting May 27-28, 2015
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Open source diffusion MRI technology for brain cancer research
07 Oct 2015 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Lauren O\'Donnell
Using measurements of water diffusion, dMRI can give unique insights into the microstructure and cellular orientation of tissues. There is a growing awareness in the neurosurgery community that diffusion models must move beyond the current clinical standard of the diffusion tensor for better...
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Pathology Image Informatics Platform for visualization, analysis and management
07 Oct 2015 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Metin Gurcan, Anant Madabhushi, Anne Martel
This multi-institutional proposal seeks to expand on an existing, freely available pathology image viewer (Sedeen Image Viewer) to create a pathology informatics platform (PIIP) for managing, annotating, sharing, and quantitatively analyzing digital Pathology Imaging (DPI) data. Sedeen has become...
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Patient Stories
30 Nov 2015 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Diane Townsel
Beaumont’s Patient videos: is the story of five patients that have participated in clinical research or have been a part of a bio-specimen study. The videos tell the unique stories of our patients and how our Cancer Clinical Trials staff build relationships with our patients and guide them...
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Por Nuestras Hijas/For Our Daughters HPV Program
24 Nov 2015 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Maria E. Fernandez
The Por Nuestras Hijas/For Our Daughters HPV program is an interactive, culturally appropriate HPV education program which includes a print fotonovela and a tailored interactive multimedia intervention (TIMI). The TIMI runs on iPads and also available on the web and mobile platforms. The program...
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Providing National Cyberinfrastructure to Biologists, esp. Genomicists
02 Sep 2016 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Tom Doek, Mervi Heiskanen
National Center for Genome Analysis Support (NCGAS) provides access to High Performance Computing resources for biologists. NCGAS also maintains a curated set of applications and Galaxy instances of their software, as well as provides bioinformatics expertise.
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Quantitative Image Informatics for Cancer Research (QIICR)
04 Apr 2014 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Andrey Fedorov, Ron Kikinis
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Summarization of Big Data
07 Nov 2014 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Jeffrey A. Blimes
All about assay selection...
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Summary of the 2015 Epigenetic Engineering for Cancer Workshops
22 Dec 2015 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tony Dickherber
This document provides a general summary of the 2 virtual workshops held in Fall of 2015 to explore the suitability of epigenetic engineering tools to specifically modify epigenetic loci to study and/or treat cancer.
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Text Messaging and Phone Calls as Tools to Promote Healthy Behaviors among Hispanic Populations
24 Nov 2015 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Laura Leticia Nervi, Barbara Damron, Maria Otero, Andrew Sussman, Dolores Guest
Title: Text Messaging and Phone Calls as Tools to Promote Healthy Behaviors among Hispanic Populations Objectives: The primary aim of this project was to evaluate the use of text messaging and phone calls to motivate Hispanic adult males and females to increase their daily physical...
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Text Messaging as a Method to Increase Oral Chemotherapy Adherence in Hispanic Cancer Populations
23 Nov 2015 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Laura Leticia Nervi, Barbara Damron, Andrew Sussman, Dolores Guest
Title: Text Messaging as a Method to Increase Oral Chemotherapy Adherence in Hispanic Cancer Populations: Patient and Provider Feasibility Surveys Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore the feasibility of conducting an interventional study to evaluate the effectiveness of text...
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The Boston Medical Center Patient Navigation Toolkit
22 Dec 2015 | Downloads
The BMC Toolkit offers case studies, tools and resources from cancer care navigation that can be applied to reduce the impact of the target disease, health disparities, and barriers to care unique to your own community. For Program Planners, Volume 1: Developing your Patient Navigation...
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The Cistrome Data Collection
22 Jan 2014 | Presentations