Singapore, Oct. 27 -- A clinical oncology research team at the LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), in collaboration with the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), has developed an innovative big data platform, called the 'Cancer Immunology Data Engine' (CIDE).

This state-of-the-art platform integrates clinical outcomes from 5,957 cancer patients worldwide who received immunotherapy, along with comprehensive multi-omics datasets covering 17 cancer types and comprising 8,575 tumour samples.

CIDE represents the most extensive database for tumour immunotherapy available to date. Currently publicly accessible via the NCI website (https://cide.ccr.cancer.gov/), the platform enables researchers worldwide to explore and...