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Community Health Worker Genetics Education Needs Assessment
23 Nov 2015 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Andria Reyes, Manuela Orjuela, Karen Schmitt, Andria Reyes, Grace Hillyer, Stephen Emerson
Our overarching goal is to develop and establish a cancer genetics curriculum that is pertinent, culturally sensitive and understandable by a community population who is not English dominant and of a lower literacy level than that of the general New York City population. The curriculum will teach...
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Breast Cancer Crossword
20 Nov 2015 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Katelyn Schifano
This crossword is designed for use in social media as well as patient waiting areas.
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8 Ways to Prevent Colon Cancer
19 Nov 2015 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Saffiyah Muhammad
The 8 Ways to Prevent Colon Cancer brochure is one out of four cancer prevention educational materials that we provide to the community at various community outreach events. The 8 Ways to Prevent Cancer Campaign is led by Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis, MO. CHE Contact...
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Screening for Small Molecules: Target Discovery Against miRNAs for Breast Cancer Treatment
18 Aug 2015 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Odemaris Narvaez del Pilar
Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer related deaths and morbidity among women worldwide. Identifying new targets and developing new therapies is very important in order to improve patient outcomes and minimize this health burden. MicroRNAs, a type of non-coding RNA, are potential...
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Home Health Party: Colorectal Cancer Knowledge
16 Jul 2015 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Kathy Briant
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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...
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LBL ICBP50 integrative genomic data
13 Nov 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Joe Gray, Jonathan Bistline
From Joe Gray, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. There are seventeen (17) files in this study: Affymetrix U133A gene expression data (icbp_u133a.gct) Affymetrix U133A gene expression data (ICBP_U133a.zip) Affymetrix splice junction exon-exon data (ICBP_Junction.zip) Affymetrix...
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Baylor Residual breast cancer
13 Nov 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Creighton C, Lewis M, Chang J, Jonathan Bistline
Residual breast cancers after conventional therapy display mesenchymal as tumor-initiating features. There are four (4) files included in this study: Sample Annotation (combined_sample_annotation.txt) Gene expression data from CD44+/CD24- cells sorted by flow cytometry (GSE7513.gct) Human...
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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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Integrated analysis of breast cancer cell lines reveals unique signaling pathways
16 Sep 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Laura M Heiser, Nicholas J Wang, Carolyn L Talcott, Keith R Laderoute, Merrill Knapp, Yinghui Guan, Zhi Hu, Safiyyah Ziyad, Barbara L Weber, Sylvie Laquerre, Jeffrey R Jackson, Richard F Wooster, Wen Lin Kuo, Joe W Gray, Paul T Spellman
AbstractBackgroundCancer is a heterogeneous disease resulting from the accumulation of genetic defects that negatively impact control of cell division, motility, adhesion and apoptosis. Deregulation in signaling along the EgfR-MAPK pathway is common in breast cancer, though the manner in which...
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Informatics to enable Routine Personalized Cancer Therapy (IPCT)
18 Feb 2014 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Elmer V. Bernstam, Funda Meric-Bernstam
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Advanced Development of TIES - A Clinical Text Search Engine
18 Feb 2014 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Rebecca Crowley
Archived human tissues are an essential resource for translational research. Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues from cancer patients are used in a wide range of assays, including RT-PCR, SNP profiling, multiplex biomarkers, imaging biomarkers, targeted exome, whole exome, and whole...
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Informatics Tools for High-throughput Analysis of Cancer Mutations
15 Jan 2014 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Michael C Ryan, Rachel Karchin
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caNanoLab: data sharing to expedite the use of nanotechnology in biomedicine
13 Dec 2013 | Publications | Contributor(s): Sharon Gaheen, George W Hinkal, Stephanie A Morris, Michal Lijowski, Mervi Heiskanen, Juli Klemm
The use of nanotechnology in biomedicine involves the engineering of nanomaterials to act as therapeutic carriers, targeting agents and diagnostic imaging devices. The application of nanotechnology in cancer aims to transform early detection, targeted therapeutics and cancer prevention and...