TCGA Center for Systems Analysis of the Cancer Regulome
The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) provides an unprecedented opportunity to take an integrated approach toward a systems level understanding of regulatory disruptions in cancer. Such disruptions and their consequences are intertwined within complex dynamical networks through a multitude of interactions among different types of biomolecules. Understanding such relationships requires multivariate analysis methods that can be effective in the context of highly heterogeneous data, measurement uncertainty, and missing data.
Research
Development of novel computational approaches for analyzing large-scale heterogeneous data.
Cancer Studies
Actively participating and contributing to several TCGA tumor Analysis Working Groups.
Software
Web-based interactive visualization and exploratory tools, and computational infrastructure that promotes collaborative research.
News & Events
February 2013
The cover of Cancer Cell features the article, with a graphic depicting the analysis.
November 2012
Brady Bernard and Hector Rovira gave a talk, introducing Genespot: A Portal for Interactive Gene-Centric Exploration of The Cancer Genome Atlas.
Dick Kreisberg presented a workshop on the Regulome Explorer.
October 2012
An article related to the work was published in the New York Times.
September 2012
July 2012
An article related to the work was featured on the home page of the New York Times.
June 2012
The keynote, delivered by Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President of Infrastructure at Google, introduced Google Compute Engine. He demonstrated how RF-ACE, a machine learning algorithm that learns associations among genomic and clinical features, can be scaled to 600,000 cores across Google’s global data centers and the results visualized using a version of Regulome Explorer.
A case study written by Google can be found here.