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Making a Bioinformatics Tool for the Cancer Research Community

Discover how to make your bioinformatics tools more broadly usable with no-code solutions!

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Synthetic Data Helps Counter Lack of Diversity in Data

In this blog, NCI’s Center for Cancer Health Equity, Dr. Laritza Rodriguez, looks at one technique to help counter a lack of diversity in your data set. See how Synthetic Minority Oversampling Techniques (SMOTE) can help bring your biomedical research data into better balance.

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A Quick Start Guide to Cancer Data Science for Clinical Oncology

Whether you are in the data science field, interested in developing computational solutions for clinical oncology, or a clinical researcher, we’ve curated a list of data sets, tools, and learning resources to showcase how these disciplines can and are working together to empower cancer research.

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Providing NCI with Nearly 40 Years of Biostatistics: A Conversation with Dr. Eric “Rocky” Feuer

After 37 years at NCI, most of which was time serving as chief of the Statistical Research and Applications Branch for the Surveillance Research Program within NCI’s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, Dr. Feuer shares his past experience and accomplishments as well as his advice to the next generation of cancer researchers.

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Living on the Edge—How Video Games Helped Shape the Future of Cancer Care

Did you know that the same technology that makes your video games more realistic is helping to power important advances in cancer research? This latest blog by Dr. Eric Stahlberg looks at edge computing and how it’s helping to transform cancer research and care.

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The 12 Blogs of CBIIT—Your Favorite Data Science Reads from 2023

Read the blogs that topped our charts in 2023, and see if your favorite made #1!

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Former Fellow Shares NCI Experience with Geocoding and Patient Privacy

Find out what a previous fellow has to say about her experience with data science in an NCI fellowship, and how she applied what she learned to her cancer research career.

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Visualizing Genetic Mutations in Three-Dimensions—Pro-Tips From a Structural Biology Perspective

CBIIT’s series on data visualizations continues with a look at visualizing genetic data in a three-dimensional (3D) format. Here, Dr. Michael Sierk, a contractor with Essential Software, Inc., and Dr. Daoud Meerzaman from CBIIT’s Computational Genomics and Bioinformatics Branch show how they create visualizations in 3D using a new tool called 3DVizSNP.

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NCI Brings Cancer Data to Life

Did you ever wonder what goes into making data ready for analysis by researchers around the world? In this video blog, meet "Datum," a single speck of genomic data chronicling how NCI supports cancer research by bringing data to life.

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Federated Learning—A Solution for Democratizing Data for Cancer Research?

Federated learning (FL) might well be the next paradigm shift in democratizing vast amounts of data from many data sources for use in cancer research. FL offers a decentralized, but collective, approach to using data to better understand cancer.

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