NCI Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC)

The NCI Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) provides access to a large collection of cancer research data, analytical tools, and visualization platforms in the cloud to make existing cancer data more findable and accessible.

Key Features:

• Data Aggregation: The CRDC aggregates descriptive information from multiple studies for findability via a single interface.
• Unified Access: The CRDC provides a single access method that spans multiple data commons.
• Cloud-Based Infrastructure: The CRDC hosts data, analytical tools, and visualization platforms in the cloud.

Scientific Applications:

• Cancer Data Discovery: The CRDC enables the cancer research community to find and access existing cancer data for discovery despite the wide variety of models and ontologies used to describe data and the dispersed storage of that data.

Methodology:

The CRDC implements core services to aggregate descriptive information and provide a single access method across multiple data commons.