The Cancer Genome Atlas - Organization of The Project

Organization of The Project

TCGA has a number of different types of centers that are funded to generate and analyze data. TCGA is the first large-scale genomics project funded by the NIH to include significant resources to bioinformatic discovery. The NCI has devoted 50% of TCGA appropriated funds, approximately $12M/year, to fund bioinformatic discovery. Genome Characterization Centers and Genome Sequencing Centers generate data. Two types of Genome Data Analysis Centers utilize the data for bioinformatic discovery. Two centers are funded to isolated biomolecules from patient samples and one center is funded to store the data. For more information on TCGA project organization, see http://cancergenome.nih.gov/newsevents/multimedialibrary/interactives/howitworks.

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