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Image ModifiedThe Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) has been leading several large-scale international collaborations in cancer genomics with a focus on big data management and high-throughput computational analyses. These projects include: the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) whose goal is to categorize the genomes of 25,000 tumors by 2018; the Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) with the goal to uniformly analyze the whole genomes of over 2,800 ICGC patients; and the Cancer Genome Collaboratory which is a newly built compute cloud to facilitate computational analyses on the ICGC dataset estimated at 5PB by project completion. In this presentation, Junjun will describe how OICR addresses the big data challenges in these projects, and how OICR will leverage the established infrastructure, expertise and partnership to tackle its next challenge: ICGG-ARGO which is an international collaboration to catalog cancer genome alterations and link them to therapeutic outcome in 100,000 patients.

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