Agenda and Presentations
Day One
Welcome: Josh Stuart
Resources Session I Chair Obi Griffith
Obi Griffith: Development of Informatics Resources for Interpretation of Clinically Actionable Variants in Cancer
Terry Meehan: The PDX Integrator – Re-Purposing KOMP2 Informatics to Widely Disseminate Data from Patient Derived Xenografts and Electronic Access to Mouse Tumor Data
John Weinstein and Bradley Broom: Next-Generation Clustered Heat Maps for Fluent, Interactive Exploration of Omic Data Video
Levi Waldron: Cancer Genomics: Integrative and Scalable Solutions in R / Bioconductor Video
Rachel Karchin: Informatics Tools for High-Throughput Analysis of Cancer Mutations
Michael J Becich: Advanced Development of TIES-Enhancing Access to Tissue for Cancer Research
Imaging Session I Chair Joel Saltz
Xiaodong Wu Developing Enabling PET-CT Image Analysis Tools for Predicting Response in Radiation Cancer Therapy
Lauren Jean O’Donnell Open Source Diffusion MRI Technology for Brain Cancer Research
Christos Davatzikos Cancer Imaging Phenomics Software Suite: Application to Brain and Breast Cancer Video
John Quackenbush Quantitative Radiomics System Decoding the Tumor Phenotype
Lunch / TOW Working Group Get Together
New Groups Lightning Talks
Vincent Carey: Accelerating Cancer Genomics with Cloud Scale Bioconductor
Nathalie Pochet: Integrative genomic framework for dissecting regulatory mechanisms underlying hepatocellular carcinoma
Raja Mazumder: Integration of comprehensive cancer mutation and expression-associated data for biomarker evaluation and discovery
Clinical Session I Chair Guergana Savova
Hua Xu and Ping Yang: Advancing Cancer Pharmacoepidemiology Research Through EHRs and Informatics Video
Guoqian Jiang: caCDE-QA: A Quality Assurance Platform for Cancer Study Common Data Elements
Hong Yu: EMR Adverse Drug Event Detection for Pharmacovigilance
Guergana Savova: Cancer Deep Phenotyping Extraction from Electronic Medical Records Video
Advanced Omics Session I Chair Brian Haas
Gabor Marth, Aaron Quinlan: Monitoring Tumor Heterogeneity Over Time and Space
Dinler Antunes: Structure-Based Selection of Tumor-Antigens for T-Cell Based Immunotherapy
Xinshu Grace Xiao: Informatics Tools for Single-Nucleotide Analysis of Cancer RNA-Seq
Aviv Regev and Brian Haas: Trinity: Transcriptome Assembly for Genetic and Functional Analysis of Cancer
Ben Raphael (Keynote): Algorithms for Inferring Evolution and Migration of Tumors
Day Two
Imaging Session II Chair Andrey Fedorov
Andrey Fedorov: Quantitative Image Informatics for Cancer Research (QIICR)
Daniel Marcus and Richard Wahl: Integrative Imaging Informatics for Cancer Research
Avant Madabhushi and Anne Martel: Pathology Image Informatics Platform for Visualization, Analysis and Management
Kun Huang: Informatics Links between Histological Features and Genetics in Cancer Video
Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer: Informatics Tools for Optimized Imaging Biomarkers for Cancer Research & Discovery
Joel Saltz: Tools to Analyze Morphology and Spatially Mapped Molecular Data Video
Resources Session II Chair Jing Zhu
Jill Mesirov: The Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV): Visualization Supporting Cancer Research Video
Timothy Griffin: A Galaxy-Based Multi-Omic Informatics Hub for Cancer Researchers Video
Josh Stuart and Kyle Ellrott: BMEG: Biomedical Evidence Graph Video
Trey Ideker and Dexter Pratt: NDEx – the Network Data Exchange, A Network Commons for Biologists
Jiang Zhu: UCSC Xena – Cloud Based Resource for Data Hosting, Visualization and Analysis
Advanced Omics Session II Chair Alexander Krasnitz
Han Liang: The Cancer Proteome Atlas, TCPA: An Integrated Bioinformatics Resource for Functional Cancer Proteomic Data
Dongjun Chung: Algorithms for Literature-Guided Multi-Platform Identification of Cancer Subtypes
Alexander Krasnitz: Computational Framework for Single-Cell Genomics of Tumors
Jingshan Huang: Omni Search: A Semantic Search Tool for Discovering Micro RNAs’ Critical Roles in Human Cancer
Imaging Session III Chair Hiroyuki Yoshida
Srinivas Chakra Chennubhotla and Daryl Sarachan: nformatics Tools for Tumor Heterogeneity in Multiplexed Fluorescence Images Video
Trinity Urban: Next Steps for Lesion Tracker: Integration with a Clinical Trials Workflow Informatics System
David Andrew Gutman: Advanced Development of an Open-source Platform for Web-based Integrative Digital Image Analysis in Cancer Video
Group Discussion