The Australian Bioinformatics Commons Paediatric Cancer Pathfinder Project
CBTN Data
CBTN Participants
Backer
Paediatrio Centre for Paediatric Precision Medicine, funded by New South Wales Office of Health and Medical Research
About this
Project
Pediatric cancer is a rare and deadly disease. This makes it challenging, or impossible, to recruit large cohorts of paediatric cancer cases, thus limiting our understanding of the biology and optimal treatment of childhood cancers. To deal with this, researchers must maximize their sample size by sharing data about pediatric brain cancers internationally. This project proposes to develop the Australian Bioinformatics Commons (AusBioCommons), in partnership with CHOP. Researchers will combine data for pediatric brain cancer cases from the ZERO Childhood Cancer Project and the Pediatric Brain Tumor Atlas, with the objective of identifying new brain cancer subtypes. This will be the largest genomic data sharing initiative ever undertaken in Australia. This project will allow data to be shared between researchers in Australia and the United States, increasing the depth of research overall.
Ask The
Scientists
What are the goals of this project?
The goals of this project is to increase the impact of brain cancer research by sharing data internationally through the Australian Bioinformatics Commons and completing analysis that will lead to the identification of new brain cancer subtypes.
What is the impact of this project?
The more access researchers around the world have to comprehensive data on pediatric brain cancers, the more quickly new subtypes can be identified and new treatments can be developed.
Why is the CBTN request important to this project?
Through integration of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Atlas, this project will be the largest data sharing initiative undertaken in Australia and will have international impact on the treatment of pediatric brain cancer.
Specimen Data
The Children's Brain Tumor Network contributed to this project by providing access to the Pediatric Brain Tumor Atlas.
Explore the data in these informatics portals
Meet The
Team
PI: Mark Cowley
Andrew Lonie
Mark Pinese
Marie Wong-Erasumus
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