Mik Black NZ Society of Oncologists 2010

1. Collaborative initiatives that are
changing the face of cancer research
Mik Black
Department of Biochemistry
University of Otago

2. The good old days: sharing data

3. The good old days: sharing data

4. Oncomine: adding value

5. http://www.broadinstitute.org/cmap/

6. Nature Reviews Cancer, 2007: 7(1) 54-60

7. http://tcga.cancer.gov/
Nature (2008) vol. 455 (7216) pp. 1061-8

8. http://www.sanger.ac.uk/genetics/CGP/

9. http://www.icgc.org/

10. http://www.icgc.org/

11. http://cabig.cancer.gov/
https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/

12. http://cabig.cancer.gov/caBIGstory/vision/
http://cabig.cancer.gov/caBIGstory/mission/

13. http://cagrid.org/

14. BeSTGRID: Broadband-enabled
Science and Technology GRID
http://www.bestgrid.org

15. BeSTGRID: Broadband-enabled
Science and Technology GRID
http://www.bestgrid.org
Nick Jones
Director, BeSTGRID
Associate Director eResearch
Centre for eResearch
The University of Auckland
n.jones@auckland.ac.nz

16. eResearch landscape

17. http://www.cellml.org
http://www.geneious.com/karen
http://biomirror.org.nz
http://sakai.bestgrid.org
A few BeSTGRID activities…
+ BLAST
Coming soon…

18. • Large “meta-cohort” of public breast cancer samples:
– 2116 patients: molecular, clinical, and treatment information
– Collaboration with Assoc Prof Lance Miller (Wake Forest), Dr
Heather Cunliffe (TGen), Assoc Prof Cris Print (Auckland).
• Goal: molecular markers for personalized prediction:
prognosis and response to treatment.
Putting the bits together…

20. Acknowledgements
University of Otago
Marcus Davy
Thomas Allen
Sarah Song
Anthony Reeve
Parry Guilford
John McCall
Tony Merriman
Translational Genomics (TGen)
Heather Cunliffe
Wake Forest University
Lance Miller
The University of Auckland
Nick Jones
Mark Gahegan
Yuriy Halytskyy
Cristin Print
Daniel Hurley
Christoff Knapp
University of Canterbury
Vladimir Mencl