OICR joins Intel-powered Collaborative Cancer Cloud

The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA, have joined the Collaborative Cancer Cloud (CCC), a medicine analytics platform that allows institutions to share patient genomic, imaging and clinical data for potentially lifesaving discoveries. The CCC is a joint venture between the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science Univ, Portland OR, and Intel Corp, Santa Clara CA. OICR joined the CCC to help overcome barriers to working with massive molecular and clinical data sets by allowing multiple institutions to pool data and provide researchers with the computing power required to work remotely....