Repository details
Cancer Genomics Hub
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Name of repository
Cancer Genomics Hub
Additional name(s)
- CGHub
Repository URL
Subject(s)
Description
>>>>!!!!<<<< The Cancer Genomics Hub mission is now completed.
The Cancer Genomics Hub was established in August 2011 to provide a repository to The Cancer Genome Atlas, the childhood cancer initiative Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments and the Cancer Genome Characterization Initiative.
CGHub rapidly grew to be the largest database of cancer genomes in the world, storing more than 2.5 petabytes of data and serving downloads of nearly 3 petabytes per month.
As the central repository for the foundational genome files, CGHub streamlined team science efforts as data became as easy to obtain as downloading from a hard drive.
The convenient access to Big Data, and the collaborations that CGHub made possible, are now essential to cancer research. That work continues at the NCI's Genomic Data Commons. All files previously stored at CGHub can be found there.
The Website for the Genomic Data Commons is here: https://gdc.nci.nih.gov/ >>>>!!!!<<<<
The Cancer Genomics Hub (CGHub) is a secure repository for storing, cataloging, and accessing cancer genome sequences, alignments, and mutation information from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) consortium and related projects.
Access to CGHub Data: All researchers using CGHub must meet the access and use criteria established by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to ensure the privacy, security, and integrity of participant data. CGHub also hosts some publicly available data, in particular data from the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia. All metadata is publicly available and the catalog of metadata and associated BAMs can be explored using the CGHub Data Browser.
Contact(s)
- administrative: support@cghub.ucsc.edu
Repository type(s)
- disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
Research data repository language(s)
- English
Data and/or service provider
- dataProvider
Dates
Started
2012
Offline
2018
Institutions (3)
Additional name(s)
- NCI
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Additional name(s)
- NIH
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- general
- technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Policies (3)
Database access
Type of access to research data repository
open
Data access (2)
Type of access to data
open
Type of access to data
restricted
Data access restriction type(s)
- feeRequired
Data licenses (1)
Data license
Data upload (1)
Type of data upload
closed
Persistent identifier system(s)
- other
Name of the repository software
- unknown
Enhanced publication
no
Remarks
Remarks
see also TCGA Data Portal. To download or upload TCGA data (BAM files) from CGHub, you must be granted authorization from the Data Access Committee (DAC).
Entry date
2014-10-15
Last update
2024-12-10
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