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ArticleGigaScience2025

The Open Pediatric Cancer Project.

Zhuangzhuang Geng, Eric Wafula, Ryan J Corbett, Yuanchao Zhang, Run Jin, Krutika S Gaonkar, Sangeeta Shukla, Komal S Rathi, Dave Hill, Aditya Lahiri and 39 more

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Article in GigaScience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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Zhuangzhuang GengCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0009-0007-6883-0691
Eric WafulaDepartment of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8073-3797
Ryan J CorbettCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3478-0784
Yuanchao ZhangDepartment of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Run JinCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8958-9266
Krutika S GaonkarCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0838-2405
Sangeeta ShuklaDepartment of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3727-9602
Komal S RathiDepartment of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5534-6904
Dave HillDepartment of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1337-1789
Aditya LahiriDepartment of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9352-1312
Daniel P MillerCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2032-4358
Alex SicklerCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7830-7537
Kelsey KeithDepartment of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7451-5117
Christopher BlackdenCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4928-090X
Antonia ChroniCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Miguel A BrownCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6782-1442
Adam A KrayaCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8526-5694
Kaylyn L ClarkCenter for Cancer and Immunology Research, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC 20010, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7207-6608
Brian R RoodCenter for Cancer and Immunology Research, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC 20010, USA.
Adam C ResnickCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0436-4189
Nicholas Van KurenCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7414-9516
John M MarisDivision of Oncology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Alvin FarrelDepartment of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1087-9840
Mateusz P KoptyraCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3857-6633
Gerri R TrooskinCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Noel ColemanCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6454-1285
Yuankun ZhuCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2455-9525
Stephanie StefankiewiczCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Zied AbdullaevLaboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Asif T ChinwallaDepartment of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7831-3996
Mariarita SantiDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6728-3450
Ammar S NaqviCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Jennifer L MasonCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Carl J KoschmannDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0825-7615
Xiaoyan HuangCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7267-4512
Sharon J DiskinDivision of Oncology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7200-8939
Kenneth Aldape
Bailey K FarrowCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6727-6333
Weiping MaDepartment of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Bo ZhangCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0743-5379
Brian M EnnisCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2653-5009
Sarah TasianDivision of Oncology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Saksham PhulCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2771-2572
Matthew R LuederCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0009-0002-7370-102X
Chuwei ZhongCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2406-2735
Joseph M DybasCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Pei WangTisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Deanne TaylorDepartment of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3302-4610
Jo Lynne RokitaCenter for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2171-3627

Funding

WORK ORDER 126643 B539 EXPAND IC SUITE75N91019D00024 · NIAID · LEIDOS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, INC. · PI BRISCOE, LYNN · 2019 to 2025
$3932.6M
U24-Uncovering the Shared Genetic Origins of Childhood Cancer and Structural Birth Defects Through Enhanced Data Integration and Analysis with the CFDE Data Distillery Knowledge Graph.U24OD038422 · OD · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI DISKIN, SHARON, GOLDMUNTZ, ELIZABETH · 2024 to 2025
$4.4M
NCI NIH HHS 75N91019D00024NIH HHS U24 OD038422NIH HHS U24OD038422
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundIn 2019, the Open Pediatric Brain Tumor Atlas (OpenPBTA) was created as a global, collaborative open-science initiative to genomically characterize 1,074 pediatric brain tumors and 22 patient-derived cell lines. Here, we present an extension of the OpenPBTA called the Open Pediatric Cancer (OpenPedCan) Project, a harmonized open-source multiomic dataset from 6,112 pediatric cancer patients with 7,096 tumor events across more than 100 histologies. Combined with RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) from the Genotype-Tissue Expression and The Cancer Genome Atlas projects, OpenPedCan contains nearly 48,000 total biospecimens (24,002 tumor and 23,893 normal specimens).

findingsWe utilized Gabriella Miller Kids First workflows to harmonize whole-genome sequencing (WGS), whole exome sequencing (WXS), RNA-seq, and Targeted Sequencing datasets to include somatic SNVs, indels, copy number variants, structural variants, RNA expression, fusions, and splice variants. We integrated summarized Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium whole-cell proteomics and phospho-proteomics data and miRNA sequencing data, as well as developed a methylation array harmonization workflow to include m-values, beta-values, and copy number calls. OpenPedCan contains reproducible, dockerized workflows in GitHub, CAVATICA, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver harmonized and processed data from over 60 scalable modules, which can be leveraged both locally and on AWS. The processed data are released in a versioned manner and accessible through CAVATICA or AWS S3 download (from GitHub) and queryable through PedcBioPortal and the National Cancer Institute's pediatric Molecular Targets Platform. Notably, we have expanded Pediatric Brain Tumor Atlas molecular subtyping to include methylation information to align with the World Health Organization 2021 Central Nervous System Tumor classifications, allowing us to create research-grade integrated diagnoses for these tumors.

conclusionsOpenPedCan data and its reproducible analysis module framework are openly available and can be utilized and/or adapted by researchers to accelerate discovery, validation, and clinical translation.

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Brain NeoplasmsNeoplasmsChildDatabases, GeneticDNA Copy Number VariationsExome SequencingGenomicsHumansProteomicsWhole Genome SequencingDockermultiomicsOpenPedCanopen sciencepediatric cancerreproducibility

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PMID40891528
PMCPMC12402770

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