3D visualization of coronavirus overlaying a microscope slide of the virus
August 12, 2020 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. ET

In this webinar, participants will explore how social determinants of health (SDOH) data can be used to fight COVID-19 and support the recovery effort.

3D visualization of coronavirus (shows a corona or crown surrounding a vitron in various colors)
August 11, 2020 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. ET

2020 Leiter Lecture: "Digital Epidemiology and the COVID-19 Pandemic"

Dr. John Brownstein, professor of biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School and chief innovation officer of Boston Children's Hospital, will deliver the 2020 National Library of Medicine (NLM)/Medical Library Association (MLA) Leiter Lecture, “Digital Epidemiology and the COVID-19 Pandemic.”

Navy blue zig zag background with text that reads, "Artificial Intelligence Virtual Boot Camp August 3-6, 2020
August 03, 2020 - August 06, 2020

The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) will hold a 4-day virtual boot camp to explore the impact that artificial intelligence (AI) has in the evolving healthcare environment and overall efforts to improve the quality of care for patients and families. The goal is to explore basic AI principles and ways clinicians can team with data scientists to conduct research to address health-related issues.

NCI's Genomic Data Commons text in red. Circle with a line coming out of it, then triangle lines togehter, each intersecting piece with a around shape holding it together.
July 27, 2020 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET

Drs. Bill Wysocki and Zhenyu Zhang

In this webinar, the University of Chicago's Drs. Bill Wysocki and Zhenyu Zhang will provide an in-depth look at how RNA-Seq data are processed at the Genomic Data Commons (GDC) and made available to the research community.

Peptide Structure vector illustration
July 15, 2020 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. ET

Alexey Nesvizhskii, Ph.D.

In this webinar, CPTAC scientist Dr. Nesvizhskii will present and demonstrate MSFragger, an ultrafast database search tool for peptide identification in mass spectrometry-based proteomics.

NCI's Genomic Data Commons text in red. Circle with a line coming out of it, then triangle lines togehter, each intersecting piece with a around shape holding it together.
June 29, 2020 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET

Bill Wysocki, Ph.D

In this webinar, the University of Chicago's Dr. Bill Wysocki will demonstrate GDC documentation and publication resources and show how users can access valuable information on GDC bioinformatics pipelines.

Tumor cells  (colored red and brown) are shown in 3-dimensions against a black background. The cells are close together, emphasizing the importance of cell-cell interactions in supporting tumor growth.
June 23, 2020 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET

This session will provide information about CPTAC's comprehensive proteomic and matching genomic tumor characterization methodologies, data access procedures, informatics tools for proteogenomics analysis, and recent advances on mass spectrometry-based targeted assays.

Proteomic Data Commons. Proteomic Data through the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons. pdc.cancer.gov
June 22, 2020 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. ET

Erika M. Kim (Kwon), Ph.D.

The presentation gives an overview of the Proteomic Data Commons (PDC) and its available data sets, and describes how the PDC facilitates multi-omic data analyses.

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June 22, 2020 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. ET

The Seven Bridges team describe how new features of the Cancer Genomics Cloud (CGC) have been implemented to broaden the data and workflows accessible to cancer researchers, including integration with NCI's Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC).

Close-up of a female researcher putting a sample onto a microscope.
June 22, 2020 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. ET

Using data sets from the Human Cell Atlas (HCA), combined with tools and computational resources available on the Cancer Genomics Cloud (CGC), the Seven Bridges team describe changes in transcriptome profiles of endothelial tumor cells over time. They demonstrate the importance of developing reproducible workflows that can run in multiple environments, and show how existing data can offer new insight into today’s complex biological questions.