New GDC Data Portal Features in the Pauling Release (GDC 2.3)

The latest GDC 2.3 Pauling Release introduces several new features designed to enhance user experience and improve data analysis.

• Cohort Builder Enhancements: Custom case, gene, and mutation filters, and reorganization of disease specific classification filters
• Filter Reset Improvements: Enhanced reset options, including the ability to reset filters to default, and the ability to maintain local filters when the cohort changes. Ability to collapse or expand facet filters.
• Case Summary Updates: Other clinical attributes now included in case summary pages
• Clinical Data Analysis Tool Enhancements: Numerical data rounding added where applicable for simplified results
• OncoMatrix Update: Now supports custom gene sets
• Gene Expression Clustering Tool: Improved performance with default plots displaying the top 1,000 variably expressed genes and the first 1,000 cases. Plus, ability to customize the clustering plot color scheme.

This release, named after renowned scientist Linus Pauling, continues GDC's tradition of honoring distinguished researchers.

For more information, please refer to the GDC Data Portal Release Notes. Updates to documentation and supporting videos can be found in the GDC 2.0 Data Portal User’s Guide and the GDC 2.0 Video Tutorial.

The GDC welcomes feedback on GDC 2.0 through our GDC Support Center at support@nci-gdc.datacommons.io.