| Data Management, Bioinformatics and Computational Analysis

The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) is yielding an unprecedented amount of information on human clinical biospecimens. The informatics component of TCGA involves developing best ways to collect, store and distribute the clinical and genomic data generated by the program.

Among the issues that are being considered are:

• protecting patient privacy and confidentiality through secure access for research and clinical information that are classified as controlled access data sets
• developing of data standards and controlled vocabularies
• establishing informatics pipelines for dataflow from production centers to a central repository
• developing new analytical and visualization technologies for different audiences to facilitate data analysis

TCGA continues to leverage the resources from the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid^® (caBIG^®) to support the distribution of data and access to analytical tools for genomic data being generated by the Biospecimen Core Resource, Genome Sequencing Centers and the Cancer Genome Characterization Centers.

The TCGA Data Portal stores all data generated from TCGA. Most data within the TCGA Data Portal is publicly accessed without any restriction; however, access to some data requires user certification for data access.

View more information on data access.