NIH awards the Imaging Data Commons

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the NIH announced the award of the Imaging Data Commons (IDC) to a consortium from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.  This contract was awarded through Leidos Biomed and is funded by the Cancer Moonshot in support of the National Cancer Data Ecosystem. The IDC will house multi-modal imaging data and make them available for use by the broader cancer research community. 

The IDC will join the Genomics Data Commons (GDC) and Proteomics Data Commons (PDC) as the newest component of the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC).  The IDC will allow researchers to apply resources from Google Cloud and leverage the work done at the Institute for Systems Biology Cancer Genomics Cloud (ISB-CGC), which is one of the NCI Cloud Resourcesthat CBIIT has supported over the last several years.