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http://www.asiancancerresearchgroup.org/

An independent, not-for-profit consortium to accelerate research, and improve treatment for patients affected with the most commonly-diagnosed cancers in Asia by generating a genomic data resource for the most prevalent cancers in Asia. ACRG is focusing its initial efforts on Asian liver, gastric and lung cancers. Goals * Generate comprehensive genomics data sets for Asia-prevalent cancers * Conduct all research under good clinical practices and in accordance with local laws * Uncover key mutations and pathways for developing targeted therapies * Discover molecular tumor classifiers for patient stratification * Discover prognostic markers to identify high-risk patients * Freely share resulting raw data with scientific community to empower researchers globally and enable development of new diagnostics and medicines * Publish data analysis results jointly in prominent scientific journals Over the next two years, Lilly, Merck and Pfizer have committed to create an extensive pharmacogenomic cancer database that will be composed of data from approximately 2,000 tissue samples from patients with lung and gastric cancer that will be made publicly available to researchers and, over time, further populated with clinical data from a longitudinal analysis of patients. Comparison of the contrasting genomic signatures of these cancers could inform new approaches to treatment. Lilly has assumed responsibility for ultimately providing the data to the research public through an open-source concept managed by Lilly''''s Singapore research site. Moreover, Lilly, Merck and Pfizer will each provide technical and intellectual expertise. One dataset can be found at http://gigadb.org/dataset/100034

Proper citation: Asian Cancer Research Group (RRID:SCR_004001) Copy   

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http://www.orbitoproject.eu/

Project that aims to increase understanding of how orally-administered drugs are taken up from the gastrointestinal tract into the body, and apply this knowledge to create new laboratory tests and computer models that will better predict the performance of these drugs in patients over a range of clinically relevant conditions. The integration of in vitro and in silico approaches will provide a biopharmaceutics toolkit, validated using clinical data, to accelerate drug development. Ultimately, the project will help to facilitate and speed up the formulation development process and significantly reduce the need for animal experiments in this area as well as for human clinical studies in the future. For patients, the main benefit will be in the form of high quality medicines where the dose required is well calculated and is released in a way that consistently provides an optimal clinical effect.

Proper citation: ORBITO (RRID:SCR_003876) Copy   

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http://www.oncotrack.eu/

An international consortium to develop and assess novel approaches to identify and characterize biological markers for colon cancer that will deepen the understanding of the variable make-up of tumors and how this affects the way patients respond to treatment. They will use cutting edge laboratory-based genome sequencing techniques coupled to novel computer modelling approaches to study both the biological heterogeneity of colon cancers (i.e. patient to patient variability) as well as tumor variation within the patient for example, by comparing primary tumors with metastases. This five year project brings together top scientists from European academic institutions offering a wide range of expertise, and partners them with pharmaceutical companies. The project is based on the premise that this genetic and epigenetic information, combined with a description of the molecular pathology of the tumor, will allow OncoTrack to generate a more accurate in-silico model of the cancer cell. This will facilitate the identification of predictive markers that can be used to guide the optimal therapy strategy at the level of the individual patient - and will also provide on-going prognostic guidance for the clinician. This project will not only advance understanding of the fundamental biology of colon cancers but will provide the means and approach for the identification of previously undetected biomarkers not only in the cancer under study, but potentially also in other solid cancers and, in doing so, open the door for personalized management of the oncology patient.

Proper citation: OncoTrack (RRID:SCR_003767) Copy   

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http://www.etriks.org/

Research informatics and analytics platform for the IMI OncoTrack consortium.

Proper citation: eTRIKS (RRID:SCR_003765) Copy   

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http://www.investigatordatabank.org/

Consortium between several pharmaceutical companies to develop a database that shares clinical trial investigator information that each company has on file to reduce administrative burden for investigators and to increase visibility of qualified investigators to research sponsors. Hosted by a 3rd party, DrugDev, it is the one place where pharmaceutical companies can share investigator and site information and investigators can view, edit, and comment on their own information. Industry members will be able share information from their clinical trial management systems including investigator / site contact details, GCP training records, past trial participation, and recruitment history. Upon investigator opt-in, this information is used by each participating company to identify sites for upcoming studies; to help set recruitment targets and timelines; and to share start-up documents such as CV, GCP, and site profile forms. The Databank has grown to include nearly 180,000 investigators (May 2014) and is already bringing benefits to its member companies in identifying qualified investigators for their studies. It also reported the inclusion of 7,335 protocols and 50K sites, representing a patient population around 1.9M.

Proper citation: Investigator Databank (RRID:SCR_003866) Copy   

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http://www.openphacts.org/

Project that developed an open access discovery platform, called Open Pharmacological Space (OPS), via a semantic web approach, integrating pharmacological data from a variety of information resources and tools and services to question this integrated data to support pharmacological research. The project is based upon the assimilation of data already stored as triples, in the form subject-predicate-object. The software and data are available for download and local installation, under an open source and open access model. Tools and services are provided to query and visualize this data, and a sustainability plan will be in place, continuing the operation of the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform after the project funding ends. Throughout the project, a series of recommendations will be developed in conjunction with the community, building on open standards, to ensure wide applicability of the approaches used for integration of data.

Proper citation: Open PHACTS (RRID:SCR_005050) Copy   

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