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It Takes a Village: Recent Article Shows Strength of Community in Addressing Childhood Cancer

CBIIT Director, Dr. Tony Kerlavage, along with NCI staff and a host of experts in childhood cancer research, recently published an article, “Cancer Informatics for Cancer Centers (CI4CC): Scientific Drivers for Informatics, Data Science, and Care in Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer,” in JCO Cancer Clinical Informatics. The article summarizes the Fall 2020 CI4CC Symposium and showcases the scope of initiatives underway to address childhood cancer, with a particular emphasis on how data science and informatics are helping to support these initiatives.

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New Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma Data in the NCI Proteomics Data Commons (PDC)

Supplementary proteomics data from the most comprehensive molecular map of lung squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) is available in the NCI Proteomics Data Commons (PDC).

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Learn More About the Cloud and Container Technology Driving Cancer Data Science at the Containers and Workflow Interest Group (CWIG) Webinars

The relaunched monthly CWIG webinar series will invite researchers from across the globe to discuss the latest advancements in cloud computing technologies, workflow, tools, and packages.

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New Imaging Data Now Available in the NCI Imaging Data Commons

NCI's Cancer Research Data Commons’ Imaging Data Commons has added new imaging data from The Cancer Imaging Archive in its latest update.

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Imaging Data Commons Featured in Cancer Research

NCI's Cancer Research Data Commons’ Imaging Data Commons has recently been featured in the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

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New Acute Myeloid Leukemia Data In the NCI Proteomic Data Commons

NCI's Cancer Research Data Commons’ Proteomic Data Commons has released accompanying proteomic data from the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium Acute Myeloid Leukemia study.

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Read NCI's Four Priority Areas for Artificial Intelligence

NCI Director Dr. Ned Sharpless and CBIIT Director Dr. Tony Kerlavage recently published an article, “The Potential of AI in Cancer Care and Research,” which takes stock of current advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning and outlines some of the areas NCI hopes to explore in greater depth in the future.

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AACR Annual Meeting 2021: Week 2 NCI Data Science Event Sessions

Attending the second week of the 2021 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting? Here are a few event sessions you won’t want to miss to learn more about the latest NCI data science, data commons, and cancer research activities.

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New Genomic Data Sets: Breast, Ovary, Prostate, and Colon Cancers

New cancer genomic data sets from the Count Me In, Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium, and Human Cancer Models Initiative projects are now available through NCI’s Genomic Data Commons.

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AACR Annual Meeting 2021: Week 1 NCI Data Science Event Sessions and Posters

Attending the 2021 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting? Here are a few event and poster sessions you won’t want to miss to learn more about the latest NCI data science, data commons, and cancer research activities.

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