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The OmicIDX is an ecosystem that treats omics metadata as data. We collect metadata from omics repositories, process it into computable forms, and make it available for search, analysis, bulk processing, and for integration with additional data resources.

Introduction The NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC) is a reboot of the approach that NCI uses to manage and expose genomic and associated clinical and experimental metadata. I have been working on a Bioconductor package that interfaces with the GDC API to provide search and data retrieval from within R. testing In the first of what will likely be a set of use cases for the GenomicDataCommons, I am going to address a question that came up on twitter from @sleight82