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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 In addition to its compliance with the ISA-TAB standard, the DCC was designed with the purpose ofaccording to the guiding principles of FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. The team, led by Andrew Quong, interacts with the academic research community to discover and employ best practices. The team's goal is to enable repositories for emerging data types in addition to those that comply with ISA-TAB, where standards for data storage do not yet exist, like they do for genomics.

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.

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