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 E-Mail The National Cancer Institute s Genomic Data Commons (GDC), launched in 2016 by then-Vice President Joseph Biden and hosted at the University of Chicago, has become one of the largest and most widely used resources in cancer genomics, with more than 3.3 petabytes of data from more than 65 projects and over 84,000 anonymized patient cases, serving more than 50,000 unique users each month. In new papers published Feb. 22 in Nature Genetics, the UChicago-based research team shares new details about the GDC, which is funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), via subcontract with the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, currently operated by Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. One of the papers describes the design and operation of the GDC. The other describes the pipelines used by the GDC for the harmonization of data submitted to the GDC and the generation of datasets used by the GDC research community.

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