About the ISB-CGC Platform
The ISB Cancer Gateway in the Cloud (ISB-CGC) is one of three National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cloud Resources tasked with bringing cancer data and computation power together through cloud platforms. It is a collaboration between the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) and General Dynamics Information Technology Inc. (GDIT). Since starting in 2014 as part of NCI’s Cloud Pilot Resource initiative, ISB-CGC has provided access to increasing amounts of cancer data in the cloud.
Exploring Cancer Data
The ISB-CGC Platform enables a wide range of users to bring their analysis tools to the data in the cloud, eliminating the need to download and store large data sets. Built with the Google Cloud Platform, it provides several entry points for exploring and analyzing cancer data:
The ISB-CGC BigQuery Table Search is a discovery tool that allows the user to explore and search for ISB-CGC Google BigQuery tables.
On the Google Cloud Platform BigQuery Console, ISB-CGC tables can be viewed and queried directly.
Python and R can interface with the ISB-CGC tables, retrieving and analyzing data.
Using Google Compute Engines and VMs, workflows can be run to perform data analysis.
Please see the USER GUIDE, MORE ISB-CGC RESOURCES and NOTEBOOKS sections to learn more about these. See the MORE INFORMATION section for release notes and Frequently Asked Questions.