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Keep up with the latest news from the NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) and the data science communities.

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We’re Hiring—Apply Today to be a Biomedical Informatics Specialist at CBIIT

We’re seeking a qualified biomedical informatics specialist to join our CBIIT Team. Apply today for this unique opportunity to use data-driven approaches for advancing cancer research.

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Rhabdomyosarcoma Images Now Available Through NCI’s Imaging Data Commons

You can now access images from patients who participated in Children’s Oncology Group trials and get metadata and accompanying clinical data. The gene panel sequencing data is available through the database of Genotypes and Phenotypes.

Small Business Funding Opportunity

Contract Solicitation to Develop Analytic Software for the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons

If you work for a small business, then this contract opportunity is for you! Support the development of commercial analytic tools for the cancer research community that integrate Cancer Research Data Commons multimodal data.

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New Cancer Data Service Expands Access to NCI Data Ecosystem

The Cancer Data Service (CDS) Portal is now live. This brings cancer researchers expanded capacity and flexibility when using the NCI data ecosystem.

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Insights Into the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative’s Progress

Read the editorial review of a paper outlining the progress and future goals of the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative!

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New Contract Opportunity to Support NCI’s Proteomic Data Commons

Are you and your colleagues interested in helping maintain and grow the Proteomic Data Commons (PDC)? NCI has a new contract opportunity to support PDC’s current operations as well as build in new enhancements. Proposals are due Friday, September 29, 2023.

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SEER Marks 50th Anniversary and Leverages New Data Technologies

NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program is marking 50 years of cancer surveillance research and launching three new initiatives that are likely to be of particular interest to the data science field. These efforts include a Virtual Tissue Repository, a Virtual Pooled Registry, and a partnership with the Department of Energy to develop application programming interfaces.

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NCI Data Science at the 2023 AACR Annual Meeting

Planning your itinerary for this year’s American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting? Want to make sure you catch the NCI-affiliated data science activities? We’ve put together a helpful reference page for you!

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New Contract Opportunity to Obtain Medical Image Segmentations

NCI is seeking support for developing machine-generated segmentations of images in the radiology collections of the Imaging Data Commons (IDC). Submit your proposals by March 10, 2023.

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See What’s New in the Childhood Cancer Data Catalog

The latest update to the Childhood Cancer Data Catalog includes website improvements and the addition of the database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP).

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