Multi-scale Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Research Data
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- This is an observational study: the protocol does not assign a study treatment.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Colorectal Cancer. Basic parameters: 18 years — 90 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Spain
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
MuSTARD is a singular project in the sense that investigators will develop a computational framework that is conceived as a common solution for disparate applications. This framework responds to a common need: the derivation of multi-scale spatio-temporal (ST) models equipped with statistical inference capabilities. Since the sequencing of the human genome, a significant portion of clinical research has shifted to the study of precision medicine (PM), resulting in numerous breakthroughs in both non-communicable and infectious diseases. PM refers to disease treatment and prevention that considers variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person. Main drivers of PM are the omics technologies . Omics data is obtained from new high-throughput instruments that generate massive volumes of data. It is also notoriously complex data to analyze. In the last years, new separation technology has allowed us to measure omics data at single-cell resolution, creating a new (and even more complex) type of data generally referred to as single-cell omics. This allow us to study the spatial distribution of omics in a sample. Spatial and single cell omics represents one of the most powerful approaches today to understand cancer propagation in both time and space. Spatial omics. Unfortunately, there are no computational tools that can readily combine the nature of this new type of data with powerful statistical inference. Furthermore, spatially resolved omics experiments with repeated measures is another form of complex ST data. MuSTARD will provide a new computational framework that can handle ST omics to understand colorectal cancer propagation in both time and space, and leverage it in a new clinical study of reduced sample size (15 patients). The MuSTARD computational framework applied to ST omics will be made available for the general community in the form of open software.
Primary outcome measures
- To develop a framework of computational tools and services capable of handling multi-scale spatio-temporal structures in massive scientific data and providing interpretable models and visualizations with sound statistical support. [Time frame: three years]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Diagnosis for colorectal cancer
- Patients with cancer planned surgery
- Absence of instability microsatellites
- Absence of any other associated disease that can affect the cancer pathology
Exclusion criteria
- Patients who need an urgent surgery
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Case-only
Study locations
Spain · 1 center
- Virgen de las Nieves Hospital — Granada
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07189312 · PID2023-152301OB-IOO