Hunting for Opportunities: Nano-Enabled Drug Delivery to Treat Cancers

26 May 2016 | Contributor(s): Alan Porter, Mervi Heiskanen

 Within the scope of ongoing nano informatics by our Georgia Tech group, we have analyzed Nano-Enabled Drug Delivery (NEDD) research publication and patent activity.  Here, I report on work led by Jing Ma exploring A) which nano components are helping deliver which B) drugs, to treat...

Data Management: The appproach in NANoREG and ProSafe

21 Apr 2016 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Sara Totaro, Hugues Crutzen

NANoREG project is working on establishing a common European approach to the regulatory testing of Manufactured Nanomaterials and ProSafe has been designed to coordinate and support the aims of EU member and associated states in their EU and international efforts regarding risk assessment,...

InChl and Nanoparticles

21 Apr 2016 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Steve Heller

The InChI Trust is a nonprofit charity which works to develop and promote the use of the IUPAC InChI open-source chemical structure representation algorithm. The InChI with its associated InChIKey was developed as a non-proprietary international standard to represent chemical structures and has...

Nano WG: NCI's Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer Program: Phase III and Data Sharing Plans

18 Feb 2016 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Stephanie Morris

Launched in 2004, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer (Alliance) advanced a number of promising nanotechnologies for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cancer in its first ten years. This progress led NCI to announce in September 2015 its continued...

Nanomaterial-Biological Interactions Knowledgebase

21 Jan 2016 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Stacey L Harper

Nano WG January 14, 2016 The NBI Knowledgebase is intended to offer industry, academia, the general public, and regulatory agencies a mechanism to rationally inquire for unbiased interpretation of nanomaterial exposure effects in biological systems. The knowledgebase serves as a repository for...

Data Collection from the Nanotoxicology Literature Using ISA-TAB-Nano

21 Jan 2016 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Richard Liam Marchese Robinson

Nano WG meeting January 21, 2016 This is an updated version of the talk originally delivered at the CompNanoTox2015 conference. [1] Marchese Robinson, R.; Richarz, A.N.; Cassano, A.; Cronin, M.T.D; Rallo, R. (2015): Data Collection from the Nanotoxicology Literature Using ISA-TAB-Nano. FigShare....

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.

Materials Science Data Management Initiatives at NIST

17 Dec 2015 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Robert J. Hanisch

Nano WG December 17, 2015   •NIST is a national and world resource for fundamental data •Access should be easy and open –With regard to IP and privacy issues •As our nation’s standards organization… –NIST should be a leader in national and...

The Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI)

17 Dec 2015 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Glenn Hampson

Nano WG meeting November 19, 2015. : "What should the future of scholarly publishing look like? How about open access? Who should decide? Can journals become more affordable and accessible? Will journals continue to serve as the primary means of communicating research? Can institutional...

Nanomaterial Registry Update

22 Oct 2015 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Karmann Mills, Anthony Hickey, Alexander Tropsha

Nano WG weekly meeting October 22,2015

Introduction to the Trinity Cancer Transcriptome Analysis Toolkit

05 Feb 2015 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Brian Haas, Aviv Regev, Bill Barnett

This short video provides an overview of our ITCR-funded effort to leverage RNA-Seq and de novo transcriptome assembly to assist researchers in studying cancer transcriptomes.  Visit our NCGAS Trinity/Galaxy portal to access these compute...

Report to the DICOM Standards Committee - December 4, 2015

10 Dec 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Joseph Kalen

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...

Talking Science: Designing and Delivering Successful Oral Presentations

18 Sep 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Shawn Mullen

"DICOM 301" - Enhanced Multi-frame and Quantitation:

04 Sep 2014 | Presentations | Contributor(s): David Clunie

 In-depth presentation on the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine StandardA one-hour  presentation of DICOM presented by Dr. David Clunie for the members of DICOM Working Group 30, Small Animal Imaging. 

pRainBow optical barcoding library

14 Aug 2014 | Reagents | Contributor(s): Andries Zijlstra

Note: this is a work in progress. About: pRainBow is a library of lentiviral vectors designed to allow for fluorescent labeling of cells with one of 7 distinct fluorescent proteins. Composition: How to obtain: How to cite: Other information:Good global...

Data Acquisition Working Group

21 Apr 2014 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Tom Chenevert, Paul Kinahan

DA-WG Update on PET-CT and DWI MRI

Rationale for Creating an International Forum and NCI Funding Opportunities

18 Apr 2014 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Larry Clarke

The topic here is the creation of research networks and their value to cancer research.The Cancer Imaging Program, is administering several research networks. This presentation on the creation and value of two of them (The Network for Translational research or NTR, and the Quantitative Imaging...