NIH Case Study CS-NIH-01 The Need As two of the 27 institutes that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH) -- the nation’s medical research agency -- The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), recently joined forces to execute on a project known as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). The TCGA mission is to catalog the genetic mutations responsible for cancer using genome sequencing and bioinformatics. T o further cancer research by making this genome data available to a larger research community, TCGA joined the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC), a collaboration of the world’s leading cancer and genomic researchers. As part of this partnership, TCGA would make cancer genome data available to other members of ICGC. The

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