An open-source platform for pediatric cancer data exploration: a report from Data for the Common Good.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The Pediatric Cancer Data Commons (PCDC)-a project of Data for the Common Good-houses clinical pediatric oncology data and utilizes the open-source Gen3 platform. To meet the needs of end users, the PCDC development team expanded the out-of-box functionality and developed additional custom features that should be useful to any group developing similar data commons.

Materials and methods

Modifications of the PCDC data portal software were implemented to facilitate desired functionality.

Results

Newly developed functionality includes updates to authorization methods, expansion of filtering capabilities, and addition of data analysis functions.

Discussion

We describe the process by which custom functionalities were developed. Features are open source and

SUBMITTER: Wyatt KD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10833446 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature