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Cancer Research Focus on
Computer Resources

Freely available special issue of the journal Cancer Research.
Focuses on computer resources funded by NCI including ITCR,
GDC, and NCI Cloud Resources.

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CRAVAT

CRAVAT is an easy to use web-based tool for analysis of
cancer variants (missense, nonsense, in-frame indel,
frameshift indel, splice site). CRAVAT provides scores and a
variety of annotations that assist in identification of
important variants. Results are provided in an interactive,
highly graphical webpage and include annotated 3D
structure visualization.

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EMERSE

EMERSE is an intuitive, user-friendly, and powerful search
engine for free text documents from electronic health
record (EHR) systems. It can be used for a wide variety
of tasks including cohort identification, eligibility
determination, looking for adverse events, and general
data abstraction needs to support clinical and
translational research

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Next-Generation Clustered
Heat Maps

Next-Generation (Clustered) Heat Maps are interactive
heat maps that enable the user to zoom and pan across
the heatmap, alter its color scheme, generate production
quality PDFs, and link out from rows, columns, and individual
heatmap entries to related statistics, databases and
other information.

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Introductory Videos

ITCR supports a wide range of informatics tools to serve current and emerging needs across the cancer research continuum.
Short introductory videos for many of the ITCR Tools are available below.