Jinghui Zhang is a driving force behind the St. Jude Cloud, a platform that hosts pediatric cancer genomes as well as data analysis tools for researchers. At the American Association for Cancer Research 2019 meeting this week in Atlanta, Georgia, Zhang and her colleagues from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital are celebrating reaching 10,000 genomes uploaded to the platform. They are also promoting a new genome browser called GenomePaint designed to integrate genomic, transcriptomic, and epigenomic data from patients.
The Scientist spoke with Zhang to hear about her vision for the St. Jude Cloud and how the platform has changed over time to become the database with the largest number of whole genomes collected from pediatric cancer patients and survivors.
The Scientist: What was the inspiration behind the St. Jude Cloud?
Jinghui Zhang: I actually had to download data from the public repository and what we recognized is the effort ...
