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Input Needed for Pediatric Data Standards

NCI’s Childhood Cancer Data Initiative seeks your feedback for the Pediatric Cancer Core Common Data Elements, a newly created resource which facilitates data integration and analysis.

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NCI Helps Address Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the GA4GH

NCI staff contributed to an October 2023 publication that highlights how the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) coalition is creating a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive environment within its standards and members. This is to prevent continuing biases in genomics data collection methods and the genomics workforce. By taking actions to address such changes, the GA4GH coalition hopes to inspire others to do the same and make genomic data more representative of the global community.

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Participate in the NCI Medical Image De-Identification Benchmark Challenge at MICCAI 2024

Explore this challenge if you’re a software tool developer interested in assessing how well your tool de-identifies medical images.

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Electronic Health Records Adopting Cancer Data Elements

Thanks to a unique public-private partnership, new data elements will soon be a routine part of electronic health records, capturing information about cancer and helping to improve cancer diagnosis, treatment, and care.

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Childhood Cancer Clinical Data Commons: A New Web Application for Your Data Needs

Find harmonized demographic and clinical data in this new data commons from NCI’s Childhood Cancer Data Initiative!

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NCI Data Science at the 2024 AACR Annual Meeting

Are you planning to attend this year’s American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting? Make sure to add these NCI-affiliated data science activities to your schedule!

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NCI CBIIT Presenters at the AMIA Informatics Summit 2024

Attending the AMIA 2024 Informatics Summit? Don't miss these NCI CBIIT-affiliated data science sessions!

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NCI Metadata Software and Services Team Recognized for Updating Metadata Infrastructure

The NCI CBIIT Metadata Software and Services team members received a 2023 NIH Director’s Award for restructuring metadata infrastructure and services to meet your needs.

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Fall 2023 Updates to Semantic Products of NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services

Get the latest updates to NCI’s Enterprise Vocabulary Services, including childhood cancer staging terminology and Genomic Data Commons property and value terminology.

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Get Rewarded by Sending Your “Recipe” for Data Sharing or Reuse in Biomedical Research

The DataWorks! Prize recognizes and rewards exceptional researchers for their work in biological and biomedical data practices. Submit your data sharing/reuse best practice “recipes” by July 24, 2024!

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