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CCDI Central Hub Links Researchers to Childhood Cancer Data Resources

NCI’s Childhood Cancer Data Initiative has a new online Hub. If you’re a researcher, doctor, or citizen scientist, you now have quick-and-easy access to a rapidly growing inventory of data, tools, and resources on childhood cancer data.

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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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Winter 2022 Updates to Semantic Products of NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services

The latest release from NCI’s Enterprise Vocabulary Services includes updates to SeroNet terminology, childhood neoplasm terminologies, as well as other standalone terminologies, ontologies, and mappings.

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Apply for Supplemental Funds to Support Data Sharing Ecosystem

Funding can be used to support data preparation for inclusion in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Data Ecosystem.

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Fall 2022 Updates to Semantic Products of NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services

The latest updates for NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services include terminology sets for NCI’s Genomic Data Commons, CDISC’s Digital Data Flow project, and a new edition of the NCI Metathesaurus.

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New Database Will Help Researchers Identify Vocal Biomarkers Using Machine Learning

A new $14 million project, funded by NIH’s Bridge2AI program, is turning the traditional biomarker concept on its ear. Instead of examining genetic or similar molecular characteristics, researchers are collecting data to look for voice biomarkers that can be linked to cancer.

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NCI Requests Your Input on the Use and Reuse of Cancer Metabolomics Data

Learn more about NCI’s Request for Information and contribute to the conversation around cancer metabolomics data.

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Explore the Latest Updates to NCI Thesaurus

NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services published the latest updates to NCI Thesaurus, which includes data supporting osteosarcoma for the Pediatric Cancer Data Commons and a new value set containing COVID-19 vocabulary.

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Check Out the Latest Updates to the NCI Thesaurus and Metathesaurus

Updates to NCIt, NCIm, and other terminologies/ontologies have been published and are now available. These resources, managed and maintained by NCI CBIIT’s Enterprise Vocabulary Service Team, promote harmonization and shared data standards. This latest update includes new data terms for the Pediatric Cancer Data Commons and the Integrated Canine Data Commons.

The NCI Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) is a cloud-based data science infrastructure that provides secure access to a large, comprehensive, and expanding collection of cancer research data. Users can explore and use analytical and visualization tools for data analysis in the cloud.

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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