Investigators with the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) have generated the most comprehensive multi-omics dataset for clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), the most commonly diagnosed kidney cancer subtype. The investigators used ...
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October 23, 2019
Over three hundred proteomic explorers and Clinical Proteomics Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) participants from around the country convened on the NIH Bethesda campus to share cutting-edge proteogenomic research in the first ever, public- ...
October 10, 2019
Large multi-omics datasets are becoming increasingly popular for studying biological systems including the identification of biological pathways, or more broadly defined gene sets, that are associated with certain biological or clinical features of interest.
October 3, 2019
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common form of liver cancer, occurs most often in people with hepatitis B or C viral (HBV or HCV) infections who drink large amounts of alcohol. Unlike the recent progress of antiviral-eliminating therapy for ...
September 10, 2019
UniProt, the leading online protein reference library, has teamed up with CPTAC! Now, search results for your protein-of-interest will include links to the CPTAC Assay Portal for relevant peptides and assay protocols, while giving CPTAC users all the rich functional annotation in UniProt ...
August 29, 2019
RAS gene mutations and their pathways have stymied cancer researchers for decades. RAS-driven cancers make up more than 30% of all human cancers due to their association with uncontrollable cell growth, death-signal ...
August 27, 2019
Genomics platform cBioPortal offers a “biologist-friendly” resource for querying mutations, copy number variations and gene expression. It contains data from The ...
August 15, 2019
The Journal of Molecular & Cellular Proteomics has released a special issue this month (August 2019) on Multi-Omics Integration. The issue sets out to show how multi-omics research is integral to the understanding of biological ...
August 6, 2019
New assays have been released today! CPTAC and researchers from the University of Victoria – Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre just released over 130 quantitative, fit-for-purpose, multiplexed mouse multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) mass spectrometry (MS)-based plasma assays for public use ...
July 30, 2019
CPTAC researchers at John Hopkins University School of Medicine have developed a technique to reliably identify o-linked glycosylation sites and site-specific glycans with core 1 st ...
July 23, 2019
Proteomic profiling often entails using a large sample input to explore the dynamic nature of protein expression and regulation. However, there are instances when researchers have the opposite due to prior methodology such as fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) or when dealing with patient ...
July 17, 2019
June 13th, 2019 marked the addition of our 33rd institution to the International Cancer Proteogenomic Consortium (ICPC). We are pleased to include Amsterdam UMC as a ...
July 5, 2019
The National Cancer Center - Korea (NCC-K) joins the International Cancer Proteogenome Consortium (ICPC) global partnership. The NCC-K has joined the ranks of ...
July 2, 2019
While it’s a common misconception that all tumors in the brain are the same, there are more than 120 subtypes of brain cancers with very diverse features and diagnosis.
June 27, 2019
Dr. Henry Rodriguez gave the keynote address at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Nephrology in Nagoya, Japan this week. In line with the conference’s theme Open The Future, Dr.
June 13, 2019
Since its first mention in the scientific literature in 2004 by Jaffe et al1, the term proteogenomics has been shrouded in mystery and thick technical language. It is a complex idea, but one that is gaining traction as its value to improve our understanding of cancer development and potentially ...
June 4, 2019
Phosphorylation is a key process in the regulation of protein activity and has long been appreciated as an essential mechanism for the control of cellular function - tells a protein where to go, what to bind to and even when to die.
May 28, 2019
The Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) is pleased to release its newest comprehensive dataset - deep proteomic/phosphoproteomic data and imaging data of Lung Adenocarcinoma (LUAD) patient tumors. The CPTAC Tumor Characterization Program uses proteogenomic analysis to systematically ...
May 14, 2019
Riding the wave of the future requires scientists to move away from silo-thinking to an inclusive and collaborative mind set. By leveraging the power of crowdsourcing, precisionFDA and NCI-CPTAC teamed up to launch the Multi-omics Enabled Sample Mislabeling Correction Big Data Challenge. Over 500 ...
April 25, 2019
Analyzing both the entire set of genes and all the proteins produced by colon cancer tissues from patient samples has revealed a more comprehensive view of the tumor that points at novel cancer biological mechanisms and possible new therapeutic strategies.