EUCANCan

The EUCANCan initiative funded by the EU aims to interconnect European and Canadian infrastructures for the analysis and management of genomic data in oncology and establish itself as a network for personalized medicine in oncology. The generated platform will offer a uniform computing  (EJP) environment for the processing of cancer genomic and phenotypic data. The open and accessible data portal will follow the appropriate ethical and legal guidelines for secure data sharing. To this purpose, the main EUCANCan goals are: 

1. To harmonise protocols for the identification and interpretation of germline and somatic variation profiles within cancer genomes; 

2. To generate strategies for the flow, management, storage and distribution of data within and across EUCANCan nodes; 

3. To define community standards for data elements, types and formats;  

4. To develop an open and accessible data portal for the searching and download of EUCANCan data and  

5. To define an appropriate ethical and legal frame to ensure the secure sharing of protected individual genomic and phenotypic data across countries. 

The ultimate objective of the project is to exploit this platform to fuel future research towards the identification of clinically relevant patterns of variation in the cancer genome, such as biomarkers predictive of therapeutic response.