The ITCR Program funds informatics tools that support data across the cancer research continuum. All of the tools are free for use by academic and non-profit researchers. Access to tools, code repositories and introductory videos is available through the links in the table below.
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Tool Name | Tool Description | Date Added |
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Gaussian Mixture Model and Proportion Test (GMAP) Genomics |
The spatial organization of the genome plays a critical role in regulating gene expression. GMAP is an open source software tool for modeling 3-dimensional chromosomal domains using Hi-C data. GMAP is also available as a Docker container. |
05/20/2019 |
GARDE Medical Informatics |
GARDE is a clinical decision support platform that (i) executes algorithms on electronic health record data compliant with the FHIR standard to identify patients who meet genetic testing criteria for hereditary cancer; and (ii) uses a scripted chatbot to provide patients with education and access to genetic testing. |
07/19/2018 |
Galaxy-P multi-omics Analysis Platform, Proteomics |
A unified platform for integrative genomic-proteomic-metabolomic data analysis and informatics in cancer research. |
06/09/2017 |
Galaxy Analysis Platform |
Galaxy is a Web-based computational workbench that anyone can use to analyze large biomedical datasets. There are >9500 software tools and visualizations integrated into Galaxy for analysis of single-cell and bulk omics, live cell and molecular imaging, machine learning, microbiome, and much more. Galaxy also includes many ITCR tools and visualizations. |
10/01/2019 |
Federated Tumor Segmentation (FeTS) Radiology Imaging |
FeTS is an open-source toolkit with a user-friendly graphical user interface, that aims to i) bring pre-trained segmentation models closer to clinical experts and researchers, and ii) allow secure multi-institutional collaborations via federated learning to improve these pre-trained models without sharing patient data, thereby overcoming legal, privacy, and data-ownership challenges. |
12/02/2021 |
FaNDOM Genomics |
FaNDOM is a fast and open source method for aligning Bionano Saphyr optical map molecules and contigs to a reference, with the goal of identifying structural variation in genomes. FaNDOM utilizes a seed-based filter to speed up the searches. FaNDOM is implemented in C++ and supports multithreading. |
12/13/2021 |
Enhancer Linking by Methylation/Expression Relationships (ELMER) Epigenetics |
R tool for analysis of DNA methylation and expression datasets. Integrative analysis allows reconstruction of in vivo transcription factor networks altered in cancer along with identification of the underlying gene regulatory sequences. |
06/09/2017 |
Electronic Medical Record Search Engine (EMERSE) Medical Informatics |
EMERSE is powerful, enterprise-grade, search and text processing software for unstructured electronic health record documents. It can be used for a variety of clinical research tasks including cohort identification, eligibility determination, and general data abstraction. EMERSE has been implemented at academical medical centers nationwide. |
07/19/2018 |
ecSeg Genomics |
This repository is the official version of ecSeg, a tool used to quantify ecDNA in DAPI-stained images. It also has an extension to analyze FISH probes. |
12/31/2021 |
DINC 2.0 Protein Structure |
DINC 2.0 is a parallelized meta-docking method for the incremental docking of large ligands (currently using AutoDock Vina). |
07/14/2017 |
DICOM ToolKit (DCMTK) Radiology Imaging |
DCMTK is an open source DICOM toolkit. |
06/09/2017 |
DANA Transcriptomics |
DANA (DAta-driven Normalization Assessment) guides the selection of a depth normalization method in a microRNA sequencing data set, using biology-motivated and data-driven metrics. For each method, its metrics allows assessment of (1) how effectively normalization removes handling effects and (2) how normalization biases true biological signals. |
12/02/2021 |
Cores Of Recurrent Events (CORE) Genomics |
CORE is a statistically supported computational method for finding recurrently targeted regions in massive collections of genomic intervals, such as those arising from DNA copy number analysis of single tumor cells or bulk tumor tissues. |
06/09/2017 |
CNVnator/CNVpytor Genomics |
A tool for detection of somatic, subclonal, mosaic, and germline CNVs from sequencing. |
07/30/2018 |
Clinical Interpretation of Variants in Cancer (CIViC) Knowledgebase Variant Interpretation |
CIViC is an open access, open source, community-driven web resource for Clinical Interpretation of Variants in Cancer. Our goal is to enable precision medicine by providing an educational forum for dissemination of knowledge and active discussion of the clinical significance of cancer genome alterations. |
06/09/2017 |
CLAMP-Cancer Medical Informatics |
A tool to quickly build customized natural language processing pipelines for extracting cancer information from pathology reports, though user-friendly interface with minimum programming knowledge. |
07/14/2017 |
Cistrome Explorer Epigenetics |
Cistrome Explorer is a powerful web-based visual analytics tool for exploring chromatin accessibility, histone modifications and transcription factor binding data across >200 samples. Compare patterns between cell types and conditions, and search Cistrome Data Browser for TFs bound near genes and in genomic intervals of interest. |
08/18/2020 |
Cistrome Epigenetics |
Curated and processed human/mouse ChIP/DNase-seq datasets in GEO, allowing users to search, browse, download ChIP-seq data signals, peaks, QC, motifs, target genes and similar datasets. |
06/09/2017 |
cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics Analysis Platform, Genomics, Transcriptomics, Visualization |
The cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics provides visualization, analysis and download of large-scale cancer genomics data sets. |
10/13/2017 |
CancerModels.Org Models |
CancerModels.Org is an open global research platform for patient-derived cancer models (PDCMs), including patient-derived xenografts, organoids, and cell line models. It is the largest open catalog of harmonized PDCMs and associated clinical, genomic, and functional data from academic and commercial providers. |
10/13/2017 |