max wilkinson ncri informatics unit promoting data standardisation within the cancer community
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Max WilkinsonNCRI Informatics Unit
Promoting Data Standardisation Within the Cancer Community
Two Parts to Presentation
• PART1- Overview of the NCRI and NCRI Informatics
• PART2- Overview on Education and training issues in cancer informatics
What Is the Role of the NCRI?
• Strategic oversight of cancer research in the UK• Identify gaps and opportunities• Plan and co-ordinate approaches between funding
bodies• Monitor progress
• Focus of activity• Co-ordination and strategic planning• National Infrastructure issues
The NCRI Partnership
Prof Alex Markham (Chair, Chief Executive, Cancer Research UK)
Prof Sally Davies (Director of Research, Department of Health)
Prof Mike Richards (National Cancer Director)
Prof John Williams (Director Health Informatics, Royal Coll Phys)
Prof Colin Blakemore (Chief Executive, MRC)
Prof Mark Walport (Director, Wellcome Trust)
Dr Philip Campbell (Editor-in-Chief, Nature)
Prof Tony Hey (Director, e-Science Core Programme)
Mrs Joanne Rule (Chief Executive, Cancer BACUP)
Professor Alan Horwich (Caldicott Guardian)
Dr Ken Buetow (NCI)
Industry Representative (TBA)
NCRI Cancer Informatics
High-level Steering Committee
Management Structure
NCRI Board
HLSC
Task Force Informatics Unit
Chair of Informatics Task Force
Data Sharing Committee
NCRI Informatics & Strategic Partnerships
NCRN NTRAC
NCRIsecretariat
NCRI Informatics
Unit
NCTR
NCRI Strategic Framework for Cancer Research Informatics
2 key points…
Common data standards should be adopted
Data sharing should be the norm
Data Issues
• Large amount of data
• Lack of data standards
• Lack of interoperability between databases
Need a cohesive approach between disciplines
Work to Date
• Development of Framework and initial implementation – introduce idea of data sharing
• Mapping projects, standards and resources on to a matrix – what already exists?
• Development of a data sharing policy with funding bodies
• Communicating with the community through website, workshops and presentations – what does the community want?
Areas of Focus
• Conceptual Modelling• Imaging and Pathology• Clinical Trials and Functional Genomics• Human Genetic Variation
Spring 2005June 2004
Training review
Infrastructure review
Data Sharing Implementation
Task Force
Report
Timeline: Future Work of Unit
Informatics Website• www.cancerinformatics.org.uk
• Strategic framework/ Draft data sharing policy
• Information resource for the funding bodies, scientific and clinical communities and the Unit
• Main point of contact with relevant communities
• The matrix is a unique information resource
• Constantly being updated
Informatics Training Review
Max WilkinsonSept 2004
Report Submission June 2005
Implementation of data sharing across the NCRI planning matrix will require investigators to create novel structured
ways of recording, linking and interrogating data
Review Objectives
• Compile a focused report on cancer informatics training in the UK• Training• Education
• Determine the degree to which informatics training can support the long term implementation of the NCRI strategic framework
• Provide recommendations on cancer informatics training to the HLSC & community
Commonality & Variation
•Genome•Transcriptome•Proteome•Metabolome
?NormalNeoplastic
Reductionism versus Systems
mRNA
Protein
Pathway
DNA
Leroy Hood, James R. Heath, Michael E. Phelps, Biaoyang LinScience, Vol 306, Issue 5696, 640-643 , 22 October 2004
New Wave of Informatics
• Super dimensional structures are being defined in genomes
• Exponential increases in complexity are expected as transcriptomes and metabolomes are characterised and mapped
• Medicine is moving from a reactionary model to a predictive and preventative model
• The Human genome was only the beginning
Several Levels In Cancer Informatics
• Clinical Informatics• Patient data & risk data• Imaging & sample resources• Clinical trials
• Bio Informatics• Research & data manipulation• Data & literature mining
• Information Technology• Infrastructures• Data storage & movement• Tool development & support
Requires Culture Change (1)
• The idea of collaboration has to be altered
• A different structure of research group has to be adopted
• Hypothesis driven research has to be expanded to cover systems analysis
• Imperative to gather indicators of implementation
Model of Integrative Medicine (CLEF)
Clinical
Research
IT
Specific Skill Requirements
• Integration & Translational Research• Network & Systems Design• Ethics, Legal, Security & Social Issues• Data structure
• Metadata• Ontologies, Vocabularies & Object Models• Data Transformation• Systems Biology
• Functional Programming & Management• Telemedicine & Collaborative tools
Requires Cultural Change (2)
• Sharing• Federating• Describing (metadata)• Interrogating• Analysing• Collaborating• Reporting and enriching
Review Outline
1. Gather opinions of individuals involved in informatics education
2. Outline current curricula in • Higher Education and Institutes
• Professional/Scientific development
3. Identify strategies currently in place
4. Determine requirements for staffing demonstrator projects
Summary
• The nature of cancer informatics is changing rapidly• Coordinate strategies will foster more efficient
discovery• Understanding the changing requirements of
education and training is fundamental to any strategy
• Primary aim is to provide recommendations consistent with the long term implementation of the NCRI Strategic Framework and data sharing policy
Max Wilkinson Tel: +44 (0)20 7061 8578Fax: +44 (0)20 7061 8580
email: [email protected]
www.cancerinformatics.org.uk