In a recent issue of Nature Communications, Clinical Proteomics Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) researchers from Bing Zhang’s lab at Baylor College of Medicine describe a new bioinformatics software tool developed to evaluate the quality of variant peptide identifications. Using a deep learning...
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News and Announcements
September 8, 2020
September 3, 2020
The Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) is pleased to announce its Virtual Scientific Symposium 2020, September 22nd, 2020. This year’s symposium will feature talks by leaders in the field of proteogenomics and will focus on CPTAC’s tumor characterization and translational studies...
August 13, 2020
The NCI’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Development Center has released a program solicitation (PHS 2021-1) which includes a new, Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC)-inspired grant. The announcement calls for the development of high-throughput, single-cell, unbiased...
July 30, 2020
This article is the second in the Investigator Spotlight Series that was the brain child of Dr. Dawn Hayward, a NCI Communications Fellow at OCCPR, highlighting our CPTAC researchers and thier work. In case you missed it the first time, here she features CPTAC scientists Dr. David Fenyö and...
July 24, 2020
Online on July 24th on Cell Systems, Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) researchers shared the results of their first-ever, crowd-sourced NCI-CPTAC DREAM Proteogenomic Challenge. In this community-based, collaborative contest participants developed computational algorithms to...
July 14, 2020
A major goal for NCI’s Cancer Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) is to translate proteomic technologies into clinical use to improve treatment and diagnosis of cancer. Dr. Amanda Paulovich and team from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (members of the CPTAC Consortium) have...
July 9, 2020
Two new studies released July 9th, 2020 in Cell unravel the biology of lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) using a suite of molecular techniques that, combined, provide a more complete picture of the disease than ever before.
July 1, 2020
Join Dr. Alexey Nesvizhskii, Professor of Pathology and Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics at University of Michigan, as he speaks on our next OCCPR Webinar about his ultrafast MSFragger software. The webinar will take place on Wednesday, July 15th at 1pm - registration is free, but required...
June 16, 2020
The Investigator Spotlight Series was the brain child of Dr. Dawn Hayward, an NCI Communications Fellow at OCCPR, to highlight our CPTAC researchers and thier work. In case you missed it the first time, here she features CPTAC scientist Dr. Karin Rodland. Enjoy!
June 2, 2020
We are so excited to be a part of the AACR Virtual Meeting II, June 22-24, 2020! Join us for our Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) Educational Session: Resources and Data Dissemination Tuesday June 23rd, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
May 21, 2020
In a new study published in Analytical Chemistry, we see another example of ingenuity by NCI’s Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomic Research (OCCPR) Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) scientists. In an effort to optimize analytical output and conserve hard-to-obtain biospecimen...
May 15, 2020
108 cases of the NCI’s Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Program (CPTAC) Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Discovery Study have been proteomically and genomically profiled! Each case includes HPV-negative, treatment naive and normal adjacent tissue, and includes proteomic ad phosphoproteomic data...
May 5, 2020
50 new pathology slides from 33 new Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) subjects are now available on the TCIA-CPTAC Pathology Portal. The April 2020 image release brings the total number of AML pathology slides to 120 from 88 subjects, with most of them also having both tumor blood and marrow imaging.
April 29, 2020
Scientists from the Clinical Proteomics Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) program developed a powerful tool to explore associations between multiple types of omics datasets. The LinkedOmics software collects genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic datasets from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and CPTAC...
April 21, 2020
In a study published on April 21, in Cell Reports Medicine, researchers with the National Cancer Institutes’ (NCI) Clinical Proteomics Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) take a comprehensive look at the root causes of ovarian high-grade serous carcinoma (HGSC). Through integrated proteomic and genomic...
April 14, 2020
One of the missions of the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) is to provide proteomic resources to the greater scientific community. So, we have great news to announce! CPTAC has added 150 "fit-for-purpose," multiplexed, mass spectrometry-based proteomic targeted assays to its Assay...
April 7, 2020
It’s that time again! CPTAC radiology images have been released on the TCIA CPTAC Pathology Portal! Between conference calls and literature searches, take a look at the 38 new radiology and 8 new pathology images added to Portal – all for free!
March 27, 2020
Finding novel interactions from comprehensive genomics and proteomics (mass spectrometry generated) is made significantly easier with the help of a visual, interactive guide. Researchers from the Mount Sinai Protogenomic Data Analysis Center (PGDAC) team within the Clinical Proteomics Tumor Analysis...
March 23, 2020
NCI announces the launch of the NCI Proteomic Data Commons (PDC)! The PDC is a next-generation proteomics data repository within NCI’s Cancer Research Data Commons with corresponding genomics and imaging data sets to enable data access, analysis, and sharing for integrative research.
March 17, 2020
New histopathology slides available from CPTAC lung squamous cell carcinoma, lung adenocarcinoma and glioblastoma multiforme studies. 149 images from 28 new cases added in the month of February 2020 are publicly available on the TCIA CPTAC Pathology Portal!