Cancer Centers Join Intel’s Collaborative Cancer Cloud (Dana-Farber/Ontario Institute for Cancer Research)

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wo more cancer centers have joined Intel's Collaborative Cancer Cloud data sharing and research platform, the chip maker and the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have announced.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research have joined OHSU to use the platform to share patients’ genomic, imaging, and clinical data for research collaborations. The platform was designed to offer a secure cloud-computing platform.
The platform aims to make it “easier, faster and more affordable for developers, researchers and clinicians to determine how hundreds, even thousands of genes interact to drive disease in individual patients,” according to an OHSU news release. The platform will coordinate the storage, networking, data security, and advanced analytics of participating cancer centers’ pooled data.
The effort will allow individual cancer centers to expand on their own genomics “big data” efforts by pooling data with those of other large institutions.....