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Data repositories are important tools in cancer research, providing safe and sustainable locations to store data, providing access to input data for meta-analyses, and allowing researchers to collaborate and share information across a common resource.

Frederick National Lab's Data Coordinating Center (DCC) stores and manages access to data generated in support of cancer research. Currently, the datasets in the DCC are funded or supported by the NCI's Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives. This data is in the standard Investigation-Study-Assay tab-delimited format (ISA-TAB) format, which describes a scientific investigation, its study or studies, and each study's assay(s).

The DCC was designed with the purpose of

Goal: Advertise the DCC on Insite

Audience: Frederick National Lab employees

Big picture to wrap in: We try to do things according to FAIR - a set of guiding principles to make data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable principles and metadata standards. We have interactions with the academic research community to use best practices. Our goals is to enable repositories for emerging data types, where the approach to data storage is not done in a standard way like it is with genomics.

Data repositories are important tools in cancer research, providing safe and sustainable locations to store data, providing access to input data for meta-analyses, and allowing researchers to collaborate and share information across a common resource.

Frederick National Lab has created a Data Coordinating Center that makes it possible to 

sponsors a diverse array of projects that generate datasets that vary in content and format, yet are related across certain defining characteristics or metadata. Integrated management of the datasets across all sponsored projects make the data more accessible, easily accessed, and potentially reused by the cancer research community. 

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