The NCI Cloud Resources are components of the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons that bring data and computational power together to enable cancer research and discovery.

These cloud-based platforms eliminate the need for researchers to download and store extremely large datasets by allowing them to bring analysis tools to the data in the cloud, instead of the traditional process of bringing the data to the tools on local hardware. The Cloud Resources also provide access to on-demand computational capacity to analyze these data. The Cloud Resources allow users to run best practice tools and pipelines already implemented or upload their own data or analysis methods to workspaces.

All three Cloud Resources provide support for data access through a web-based user interface in addition to programmatic access to analytic tools and workflows, and the capability of sharing results with collaborators. Each Cloud Resource is continually developing new functionality to improve the user experience and add new tools for researchers.

NCI Cloud Resources all provide access to:

The individual Cloud Resources also provide access to additional datasets, including:

The NCI Cloud Resources are hosted by The Broad Institute, ISB, and Seven Bridges. Each Cloud Resource has developed a unique infrastructure with a variety of tools to access, explore, and analyze molecular data.

Available Cloud Resources

Broad Institute FireCloud

FireCloud is an open, standards-based platform for performing production-scale data analysis in the cloud. Built on the Google Cloud Platform, FireCloud empowers analysts, tool developers, and production managers to run large-scale analysis and to share results with collaborators. Users can upload their own analysis methods and data to workspaces or run the Broad’s best practice tools and pipelines.

ISB Cloud

The ISB Cancer Gateway in the Cloud, leveraging many aspects of the Google Cloud Platform, allows scientists to interactively define and compare cohorts, examine underlying molecular data for specific genes and pathways, and share insights with collaborators. For computational users, Application Program Interfaces (APIs) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources such as BigQuery and Google Pipeline service, allow complex queries from R or Python scripts or Dockerized workflows to run on data available in the Google Cloud Storage.

Seven Bridges Cancer Gateway in the Cloud

The Seven Bridges Cancer Gateway in the Cloud, hosted on Amazon, has a rich user interface that allows researchers to find data of interest and combine it with their own private data. Data can be analyzed using more than 200 preinstalled, curated bioinformatics tools and workflows. Researchers can also extend the functionality of the platform by adding their own data and tools via an intuitive software development kit.

Access the Cloud Resources

dbGaP access is required for each researcher who wishes to access controlled data. Learn more about how to access controlled data.

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