A non-profit cancer research-sharing organisation called Count Me In has been launched by Genomic Data Commons , the Biden Cancer Initiative, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Cancer Genomics and cancer patients. The organisation said it wanted to collect medical data from more than 100,000 patients from around the world, with all main and rare cancer types accounted for. It will analyse that patient information and distribute it to researchers around the world through databases including the cBioPortal for the Broad Institute and the National Cancer Institute’s the Emerson Collective .
A non-profit cancer research-sharing organisation called Count Me In has been launched by the Broad Institute, the Biden Cancer Initiative, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Emerson Collective and cancer patients. The organisation said it wanted to collect medical data from more than 100,000 patients from around the world, with all main and rare cancer types accounted for. It will analyse that patient information and distribute it to researchers around the world through databases including the cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics and the National Cancer Institute’s Genomic Data Commons.