Purdue University Bioinformatics Class

Title: The Cancer Genomics Cloud: a secure and scalable cloud-based platform to access,

share and analyze multi-omics datasets

Speaker Info:

Name: Sai Lakshmi Subramanian

Email: sai.subramanian@sbgenomics.com

Title: Program Manager, Cancer Genomics Cloud

Institution/Company: Seven Bridges

Summary:

The exponential growth and diversity of complex datasets poses severe challenges in terms of

data access and sharing, analysis and compute power. In this session, Ms. Subramanian will

introduce the Seven Bridges Cancer Genomics Cloud (CGC), which is a NCI-funded resource

that provides a unified platform for cancer data analysis by co-localizing three components

within the cloud: 1) large cancer datasets from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), Clinical

Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) and several others; 2) >500 bioinformatics

tools and best-practice workflows for analyzing multi-omics data; and 3) the computational

capabilities to do large-scale analyses. The user-friendly portal of CGC allows the researchers

to browse, query and filter datasets of interest and also bring their own data for collaborative

analysis in the context of other publicly available data. In addition to the simplicity of data

access and management, the CGC provides the flexibility to bring private tools, and the ability to

complete reproducible and interactive analyses, all with the speed of cloud computing resources

without needing any cloud provider accounts or managed billing.