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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 and is supported by the NCI's Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives. This data is The datasets currently in the DCC are in 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).

In addition to its compliance with the ISA-TAB standard, the DCC was designed according 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 teamThe DCC's goal is to enable repositories for emerging data types in addition to those that comply with ISA-TAB, where . Emerging data types include those for which 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 To enable this, the DCC was designed according to the guiding principles of FAIR: 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.Reusable, metadata standards such as ISA-TAB, and best practices of the academic research community,

The team, led by Andrew Quong

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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