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Award-Winning Commitment to Innovation: NCI’s CPTAC and PDC Team Recognized by FedHealthIT

Celebrate the NCI team that recently received a 2022 FedHealthIT Innovation Award for their commitment to advancing cancer research through work proteomics efforts such as the Proteomic Data Commons.

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AACR Annual Meeting 2022: NCI Data Science Event Sessions and Posters

If you’re attending the 2022 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting (either in person or virtual), don’t miss these data science sessions, poster presentations, and the NCI exhibit booth, where you can hear more about our programs and activities!

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Integrated Canine Data Commons Has New Data from a European Top 10 Study List

Looking for canine urothelial carcinoma data? RNA sequencing and clinical data from a phase I/II trial, listed in the EACR’s top 10 publications, is available for analysis through NCI’s Integrated Canine Data Commons.

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The Evolution of NCI’s Data Commons

CBIIT Director, Dr. Tony Kerlavage, sat down recently for a podcast examining the evolution of NCI’s Data Commons. He tracked the development of the Cancer Research Data Commons, from its early pilots to today’s cloud-based infrastructure, with repositories of diverse data and more than 1,000 tools and resources.

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Share Your Feedback on NCI’s Integrated Canine Data Commons

NCI is looking for cancer researchers, who need access to comparative oncology data sets, to give feedback on the Integrated Canine Data Commons (ICDC) data portal and its tools.

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New Study Highlights Practical Data Needs to Successfully Apply Pharmacogenomics and Precision Medicine

NCI DATA Scholar Dr. Jay G. Ronquillo recently published a study using NIH “All of Us” data and NCI’s Cancer Research Data Commons to better understand pharmacogenomic prescribing and testing patterns across the United States.

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New Clinical Data Added to the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons

The NCI Cancer Research Data Commons has recently added 1,000 new clinical outcome data files for Clinical Proteomic Tumor Atlas Consortium (CPTAC) studies to NCI’s Genomic Data Commons and Proteomic Data Commons.

Publicly Available Imaging Data | National Lung Screening Trial (NLST)

Access Publicly Available Imaging Data from the National Lung Screening Trial

More than 70,000 CT scans from the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) are now publicly available (no data access request needed). Read more to learn how to access this data through NCI resources.

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New Data and Updated Features at NCI's Imaging Data Commons

The NCI Cancer Research Data Commons’ Imaging Data Commons (IDC) has updated to include more features and 16 terabytes of medical imaging data files for cancer researchers and imaging informaticists.

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Genomic Data from Chernobyl Studies Is Now Available in the Genomic Data Commons

The NCI Genomic Data Commons now has two new projects from studies about the potential health effects of exposure to ionizing radiation from the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine.

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