Project Goals
The goal of the pilot project was to demonstrate that advanced genomic technologies could be utilized by a team of scientists from various institutions to generate statistically and biologically significant conclusions from the diverse genomic data set generated by the Project. The Cancer Genome Atlas Network claim that they "can rapidly expand knowledge of the molecular basis of cancer.. Two tumor types were explored during the pilot phase, Glioblastoma Multiforma (GBM) and Cystadenocarcinoma of the Ovary. The goal of TCGA Phase II is to expand the success experienced in the pilot project to more cancer types, providing a large, statistically significant data set for further discovery. More information about TCGA is available at the TCGA home page (http://cancergenome.nih.gov/) and TCGA data can be accessed through the TCGA Data Portal (http://tcga-data.nci.nih.gov/tcga/).
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