Chapter 14. Curating cancer research data with Tika
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For more than 10 years, the goal of the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Early Detection Research Network (EDRN) program has been to accelerate research into the identification and detection of cancer biomarkers, early indicators of disease.
Over the last three years, Tika has been assisting in that fight. Tika helps capture and curate mass spectrometry files, CSV files, PDF files, SAS files, and other data sets produced by lab instruments, analysis programs, and by EDRN investigators for further scientific research and role-based dissemination to the broader community. In this chapter, we’ll explain how Tika has been used in EDRN’s Catalog and Archive Service, or eCAS. Let’s hop to it.
The National Cancer Institute’s EDRN project has focused on the identification of cancer biomarkers for over a decade. Biomarkers are indicators of early onset of disease, and identifying accurate and precise methods for their detection is one of the EDRN’s primary goals.