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Get NCI Support to Develop Technologies and Informatics Tools for Cancer Metabolomics

Cancer researchers can help NCI enhance cancer metabolomics research by applying for funding to develop innovative technologies and informatics tools.

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SEER Marks 50th Anniversary and Leverages New Data Technologies

NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program is marking 50 years of cancer surveillance research and launching three new initiatives that are likely to be of particular interest to the data science field. These efforts include a Virtual Tissue Repository, a Virtual Pooled Registry, and a partnership with the Department of Energy to develop application programming interfaces.

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New Tool Facilitates Data Sharing from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Screening Study

The PLCO Atlas allows investigators to browse and access germline genetic association data from the PLCO Screening Study via the Genome-Wide Association Study Explorer.

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Apply for Supplemental Support to Develop Software Tools for Open Science

Are you working on software tools to promote open science in cancer research? NCI has issued a Notice of Special Interest offering supplemental funding for work in this area. The application due date is May 9, 2023.

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Grant Opportunities to Develop Informatics Technology for Cancer Control and Population Sciences

See if any of the available grants highlighted in this Notice of Special Interest are a good fit for your data science work.

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New Deep Learning Tool Accurately Classifies Tumor Types

NCI-DOE Collaboration researchers, using data from the Genomic Data Commons, have developed TULIP: a deep learning tool for classifying human RNA-seq-based tumor types.

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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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See What’s New in the Childhood Cancer Data Catalog

The latest update to the Childhood Cancer Data Catalog includes website improvements and the addition of the database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP).

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Explore New Resources and Data Sets from the CCDI Data Catalog

The latest update to the Childhood Cancer Data Catalog includes new and updated data, improved accessibility, as well as enhanced site search tools.

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Check Out the NCI Childhood Cancer Data Initiative’s (CCDI’s) Newly Launched Molecular Targets Platform

Using this knowledgebase, researchers may search for associations between molecular drug targets, diseases, and drugs specific for childhood cancers.

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