A big data platform to enable integration of high quality clinical data and next generation sequencing data

Abstract

Today, personalized medicine is closer to reality than ever before through targeted treatment, however, the substantial increase in data correspondingly requires scalable systems to continue to effectively manage the data and to remain current with advancing technology. As organizations move to advance translational research to achieve personalized medicine, researchers and clinicians must manage informatics, however, there is a shortage of fully integrated informatics solutions that integrate, store, and analyze clinical and omics data from diverse sources – generated in-house as well as public consortiums. Many researchers and clinicians must rely on bioinformaticians to perform mundane data management tasks in order to validate a simple hypothesis. Oracle Health Sciences Translational Research Center provides a complete and scalable informatics solution, with centralized data storage and analysis across genetic information areas (genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics), vendor platforms, biological data types, and clinical data sources. Organizations such as Cancer Research UK, Erasmus MC, MD Anderson Cancer Center and UPMC have adopted this solution and are evaluating treatment responses for similar patients in a self-sufficient manner, ultimately shortening the biomarker development cycle and accelerating the adoption of personalized medicine.