Informatics: Needs and Challenges in Cancer Research, Workshop Summary. Held in Washington, DC on February 27-28, 2012.

摘要

Informatics tools are essential to biomedical and health research and development. The field of cancer research, like most scientific disciplines, is facing an overwhelming deluge of data that are increasingly challenging to collate, store, access, analyze, and exchange. There is a particular need to integrate research and clinical data to facilitate personalized medicine approaches to cancer prevention and treatment (e.g., tailoring treatment based on an individual patients genetic makeup as well as that of the tumor) and to allow for more rapid learning from patient experiences (IOM, 2010, 2011). There is an increased national urgency to find solutions to support and sustain the cancer informatics ecosystem, especially in light of the recent devolution of the National Cancer Institutes (NCIs) Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (Trade Name) (caBIG) program.