Cancer KnowLedger

The Cancer KnowLedger is a public decentralized database for somatic cancer variants. The KnowLedger will contain whole genome somatic cancer variants, though the available data for a given participant may vary based on the tests that were performed for that individual. In addition to variants, the database will contain general clinical data such as age group and cancer type.

Here is a PDF of slides that give a general overview of the KnowLedger: ACGI Cancer KnowLedger Slides

Overview

The Cancer KnowLedger is a decentralized database implemented throught Ethereum that satisfies the following criteria:

• The data open and available to all
• Ubiquitously accessible on the Internet
• Can scale to accept donations from thousands of sources
• Not maintained by any central authority or tied to any single country, location or institution
• Not corruptible
• Protects participant privacy
• Stable design so that it may be used by many 3rd party application programs (“apps”)