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The Center for Cancer Data Harmonization Kicks Off Efforts

The National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Center for Cancer Data Harmonization (CCDH) is kicking off a 3 ½ year-effort to make the volumes of data arising from cancer research more accessible, organized, and powerful.

3 user icons viewing the CPTAC Data Portal homepage on a laptop screen. The CPTAC homepage shows a visualization of the data available by body part.

Updated Data Portal Interface for the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium

The National Cancer Institute’s Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) data portal now boasts a new interface.

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Multiple Myeloma Data Released in the NCI Genomic Data Commons

Genomic and clinical data collected for nearly 1,000 cases of multiple myeloma by the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) over eight years is now being shared with the cancer research community through the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Genomic Data Commons.

The functionality of the cancer data aggregator can be described as this: a user is currently on a data portal or application (for example one of the NCI Cloud resources from the Broad Institute, ISB, or Seven Bridges Genomics). That application will connect to the Cancer Data Aggregator through an API that allows users to query parameters for data sets. The aggregator then queries across the Cancer Research Data Commons (which will be secured by Auth/AuthZ authentication), NCI Data Coordinating Centers, an

Submit a Proposal to Build the Cancer Data Aggregator (CDA) by August 22

Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research is requesting proposals to develop a query engine called the Cancer Data Aggregator (CDA).

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NCI Childhood Cancer Data Initiative Invites Responses and Ideas to Enhance Data Sharing

Calling patients, parents, researchers, clinicians, advocates, data scientists, engineers, and developers! The NCI Childhood Cancer Data Initiative invites you and anyone with a bold idea to submit ideas to enhance data sharing for progress against childhood cancer by August 9th, 2019.

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