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TARGET

Description

The Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments (TARGET) program applies a comprehensive genomic approach to determine molecular changes that drive childhood cancers. The goal of the program is to use data to guide the development of effective, less toxic therapies.

Data access

You can find TARGET pediatric cancer data in the folder:

/workspace/datasets/intogen_datasets/genomes/datasets/target/20190228/original_data/
/workspace/datasets/intogen_datasets/genomes/datasets/gdc/target/20200917/

Website of the project

ocg.cancer.gov/programs/target

!!! note annotate "Website of the data (processed on GDC)" portal.gdc.cancer.gov/projects/TARGET/

Citing in Publications and Presentations

Researchers making use of TARGET pediatric cancer data must acknowledge this in every publication, by using at least the text below:

"The results published here are in whole or part based upon data generated by the Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments (https://ocg.cancer.gov/programs/target) initiative, phs000218. The data used for this analysis are available at https://portal.gdc.cancer.gov/projects. Information about TARGET can be found at http://ocg.cancer.gov/programs/target."

Click here to learn more about how to cite TARGET pediatric cancer data.

Reference

  • Paula Gomis
  • Mònica Sánchez Guixé