Dissolution as a Paradigm in Regulating Nanomaterials

16 Aug 2017 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Frederick C. Klaessig

Nano WG presentation, August 10, 2017 Themes: • Dissolution as a decision criterion • Analogies to ζ-potential & VSSA • Relation to nanoform & nanoscale form • Dissolution kinetics and artifacts • ASTM particle ontology & Nanoinformatics Roadmap...

Workshop Tweets

15 Aug 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Stephanie Morris

Collated tweets from workshop and networking reception.

caNanoLab Overview

05 Jul 2017 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Stephanie Morris, Mervi Heiskanen

General Overview of the caNanoLab data portal: data submission workflow, collaboration features, data sharing and working with Journals and PubMed to share information about data submissions.

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

European Chemical Agency's work to implement REACH regulation for nanomaterials

04 May 2017 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Frank Le Curieux

Nano WG presentation on May 4, 2017.  REACH = Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation (& restriction) of Chemicals aims to ensure a high level of protection of human health and the environment while enhancing competitiveness and innovation. Nano materials are covered by...

Human Disease Ontology

21 Sep 2016 | External Applications | Contributor(s): Lynn Schriml

The Disease Ontology has been developed as a standardized ontology for human disease, since 2003, with the purpose of providing the biomedical community with manual curated, consistent, reusable and sustainable descriptions of human disease terms, phenotype characteristics and related...

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.

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...

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...

Tips for creating Standards Group Pages

22 May 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Denise Warzel

The Standards Portal offers a way to organize dsicussions and resources related to a set of standards. The organizing construct can be either a community interested in sharing data or using common tools, or by a particular type of standard, for example demographics or biomarkers. An example of a...

Getting Started at the Standards Portal Pilot

27 Mar 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Denise Warzel, Ann Christine Catlin

The Standards Portal Pilot is now available! (Click the link for the portal home page.)Why use the standards portal? See more information about its genesis and use cases in a study conducted for the VCDE caBIG community here. If you are participating in the Pilot, please join the...

Standards Portal CRFs Complete View

19 Mar 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Denise Warzel, Sumudinie fernando, Ann Christine Catlin

This DataView resource page is for the Standards Portal CRFsUse this DataView to browse,search, explore and download the complete set of columns for NCI case report form standards at the Hub. These CRFs were brought to the Hub for clarification, discussion and discovery. They were assembled by...

Standards Portal CDEs Common Data Fields

19 Mar 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Denise Warzel, Sumudinie fernando, Ann Christine Catlin

This DataView is for the Common Data Fields of the Standards Portal CDEsUse this DataView to browse, search, explore and download the essential set of columns for NCI common data elements standards at the Hub. These CDEs were brought to the Hub for clarification, discussion and discovery. They...

Standards Portal CRFs Common Data Fields

19 Mar 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Denise Warzel, Sumudinie fernando, Ann Christine Catlin

This DataView is for the Common Data Fields of the Standards Portal CRFsUse this DataView to browse, search, explore and download the essential set of columns for NCI case report form standards at the Hub. These CRFs were brought to the Hub for clarification, discussion and discovery. They were...

Why Use the Standards Portal at the Hub?

19 Mar 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Denise Warzel, Sumudinie fernando, Ann Christine Catlin

The materials attached to this page were provided by Baris Suzek, who at the time was the Informatics Project Lead at the Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics at Georgetown University School of Medicine. He conducted a study for the caBIG VCDE community to help clarify some of the...

Standards Portal Vocabulary DataView

15 Mar 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Sherri de Coronado, Denise Warzel, Ann Christine Catlin, Sumudinie fernando

The DataView for terminology referenced/used by the CDEs and CRFs currently contained in the Standards PortalThe DataView on this resource page can be used to browse, search, explore and download the NCI concepts for vocabulary referenced by the CDEs and CRFs uploaded to the Standards Portal....

Standards Portal CDEs Complete View

15 Mar 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Denise Warzel, Ann Christine Catlin, Sumudinie fernando

This DataView on this resource page is used to explore the Standards Portal CDEsUse the DataView provided on this resource page to navigate, browse, search, explore and download the complete set of columns for NCI common data elements standards at the Hub. These CDEs are brought to the Hub for...

NCI Standard CRFs

15 Mar 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Denise Warzel, Ann Christine Catlin, Sumudinie fernando

Working in conjunction with NCI has developed a collection of Standard Case Report Forms (CRFs) for use in developing new protocols. The project and its status are described here. The reuse of sections from standard CRFs helps to ensure that data collected in different studies is compatible and...

Performance Status Scoring : a standards portal resource

15 Mar 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Ann Christine Catlin, Sumudinie fernando, Denise Warzel, Angela Kummerow

The scoring scale used may depend on patient population, disease, study goals and other criteria. Many definitions of the scale scoring do not match the standard.What is Performance Status?Performance status attempts to quantify the general well-being of cancer and other patients. The score...