The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Genomic Data Commons (GDC) contains more than 2.9 petabytes of genomic and associated clinical data from more than 60 NCI-funded and other contributed cancer genomics research projects. The GDC consists of five applications over a common data model and a common application programming interface.
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The GDC software was developed and tested by A. Khurana, A. Kadam, A.W., A.H., A.C., A.Z., B.F.C., B.L.W., B.R., B.B., C.F.B., C.W., C.D., C.K.Y., C.Y., C.P.R., F. Gomez, F. Gerthoffert, F.C., G.L.G., I.M., J.C.A., J.J.P., J.B., J.A.M., J.P., J. Spring, J. Sislow, J.T.Y., J.S.M., J.Z., J.H.B.B., K.W., K.H., K.R., K.C., K.M., K.M.J.K., K.A.S., L.L., L.X., M.A., M.W.M., M.Y.P., M.S.F., M. Ford, M. Fukuma, P.L.P., P.-M.D., P.M., R.P., R.A., R.L.G., R.B., R.J., R.O.O., S.R., S.S., S.W., S.J., S.A., T.N., T.I.G., V.E.K., V.F., W.P.W., Y.T. and Y.Z. Bioinformatics, data curation and data modeling were performed by A.P.K., D.P.M., F.M.O., J.H.S., J.Z., K.M.H., L.S., M.A.J., M.L.F., R.L.G., R.B., S.L., T.M.L., T.I.G., V.F., W.P.W., Z.Z. and Z.W. The project managers were A.P.H., B.I., C.K.Y., D.S.G., E.M., F.G., H.D.T., H.S., J.L., J.C.Z., L.Y., L. Stein, L. Staudt, M.A.J., M.L.F., M.T., R.L.G., S.S.G., S.G., T.D., T.J.S., V.F. and Z.W. The manuscript was written and revised by A.P.H., D.S.G., J.C.Z., L. Staudt, R.L.G. and Z.Z.
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Heath, A.P., Ferretti, V., Agrawal, S. et al. The NCI Genomic Data Commons. Nat Genet 53, 257–262 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-021-00791-5
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