Data Processing, Analysis and Modeling Unit

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville TN

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PROJECT SUMMARY: Data Analysis Unit The main goal of the Data Analysis Unit is to provide state-of-the art bioinformatics and biostatistics tools/methods for the construction of a dynamic and multidimensional atlas of colorectal pre-cancer lesions at single-cell resolution. Focusing on single-cell expression profiles from cell populations in suspension, and imaging techniques that preserve tissue spatial information, we will characterize the landscape of gene mutations, cellular composition, cell-microbe-immune interactions, and progression trajectories in unique surgically resected specimens, which may comprise the full normal-adenoma-to-cancer sequence as well as in collected specimens of normal colonic mucosa, early, and late adenomas. We will identify cellular, spatial, functional, and microbial biomarkers associated with progression and build a predictive model of colorectal neoplastic transformation.