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Research Community Comes Together to Provide New "Gold Standard" for Genomic...
New results provide an important benchmark for researchers, helping to define the most accurate methods for identifying somatic mutations in cancer genomes.
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The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research Invests $4.6 Million to Support...
OICR is investing $4.6 million over two years in PanCuRx, an initiative that seeks solutions to the high fatality rate of pancreatic cancer.
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Researchers Sequence and Assemble First Full Genome of a Living Organism...
Researchers in Canada and the U.K. have for the first time sequenced and assembled de novo the full genome of a living organism, the bacteria Escherichia Coli, using Oxford Nanopore's MinIONTM device,...
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World-Leading Big Data Researchers Call for Support for More Accessible and...
Today in the journal Nature prominent researchers from Canada, Europe and the U.S. have made a powerful call to major funding agencies, asking them to commit to establishing a global genomic data...
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The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and the Structural Genomics...
Researchers from the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) and the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto have developed a new drug prototype called...
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International Team Announces Crowdsourcing Competition, Running on Google...
An international consortium of groups from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom have come together to create an innovative, cloud-based, public challenge to optimize the discovery of...
View ArticleThe International Cancer Genome Consortium Brings More Genomic Health Data to...
The International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) announced today that 1,200 encrypted cancer whole genome sequences are now securely available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud for access by...
View ArticleBuilding the Foundations for Cancer Genomic Analysis for Research and...
A study published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications revealed a high degree of heterogeneity in how cancer genome sequencing is done at different institutions across the globe. This...
View ArticleInternational Cancer Genome Consortium Reaches Milestone of 1,000 Authorized...
The International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) announced today that its Data Access Compliance Office (DACO) authorized its 1,000th user, giving them access to the Consortium's Controlled Access...
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International Cancer Genome Consortium for Medicine (ICGCmed) Launches Today,...
The International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) today announced plans to launch the International Cancer Genome Consortium for Medicine (ICGCmed), a new phase in the Consortium's evolution that will...
View Article$2 Million in New Funding From Canadian Institutes of Health Research Will...
The award will fund the study of the role of both genes and the environment on the development of metabolic syndrome, a cluster of medical conditions that are common in aging adults, including obesity,...
View ArticleClinical Trial Launched to Test Use of MRI to Improve Prostate Cancer...
The Movember Foundation, the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) and Prostate Cancer Canada today announced $3 million in funding for a new Phase III clinical trial to evaluate if magnetic...
View ArticleResearchers Discover Protein Signatures for Accurate Non-Invasive Diagnosis...
Researchers at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) and University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto, along with researchers at the Eastern Virginia Medical School, have created protein...
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International Team Launches Community Competition to Unravel How Cancer...
An open challenge that merges the efforts of the International Cancer Genome Consortium, The Cancer Genome Atlas, and the NCI Cloud Pilots with Sage Bionetworks and the open science DREAM Challenge...
View ArticleNew Retrospective Study Aims to Identify Mutations to Better Diagnose Breast...
Mr. Peter Goodhand, President of The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), today announced a new collaborative research study in partnership with Thermo Fisher Scientific and Queen's University...
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Reactome Announces Annotation and Release of 10,000th Human Protein
The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the New York University School of Medicine and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) today announced a major milestone in the Reactome...
View ArticleNew Findings Published Today in Nature Challenge Current View of How...
Researchers in the multidisciplinary PanCuRx research initiative at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) and University Health Network's Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, led by Dr. Faiyaz...
View ArticleInnovative Technique Greatly Increases Sensitivity of DNA Sequencing
OICR researchers, together with international collaborators, have invented a technique to avoid a major problem with common laboratory techniques and improve the sensitivity of important cancer tests....
View ArticleOICR Launches Five Large-Scale Ontario Research Initiatives to Combat Some of...
Funding announcement from the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
View ArticleNew Data Resource Centre Will Help Better Understand Links Between Birth...
Up to $14.8 million over five years, contingent on available funds, was announced today by The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund's Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program...
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