Database for final project

Database for final project

by Carling Ursem -
Number of replies: 2

I will not have enough data collected for my research project by the time the final project for this course. Do you have any recommendations of where to get a database to use for the final project? My mentor does not have anything readily available. 

In reply to Carling Ursem

Re: Database for final project

by Yiwey Shieh -

My perspective is a bit biased because I mostly do research on breast cancer, but here are two potential datasets that are publicly available:

BCSC screening dataset, should be cleaned and the site has extensive annotations about what the variables mean. Should be amenable to simple data analysis, just need to obtain permission (which I don't think is hard for academics):

http://www.bcsc-research.org/data/index.html

 

TCGA has clinical data available for a variety of cancers, but the site is more difficult to navigate and the clinical data elements less well-defined.

https://gdc-portal.nci.nih.gov/projects/t

 

I can help you with either if needed, and if any other students/course staff have ideas that would be great too!

Yiwey