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New Open-Source Tool Developed by NCI Scientists Detects Signatures of T cell Resilience in Solid Tumors

Dr. Peng Jiang of NCI’s Center for Cancer Research Cancer Data Science Lab and his postdocs have developed an open-source computational tool called the tumor-resilient T cell (Tres) model. Tres analyzes gene activity in T cells to assess how those cells are likely to fare in an immunosuppressive environment.

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New Technology: Biomarker Analysis Software for High-Throughput Diagnostic Multiplex Data

Investigators from NCI’s Center for Cancer Research developed a software package to perform high-throughput analysis of extracellular vesicles, which are particles a cell releases that can promote cell growth and survival. NCI is now seeking research co-development partners and/or licensees for this biomarker analysis software.

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AACR Annual Meeting 2022: NCI Data Science Event Sessions and Posters

If you’re attending the 2022 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting (either in person or virtual), don’t miss these data science sessions, poster presentations, and the NCI exhibit booth, where you can hear more about our programs and activities!

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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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Discover ITCR’s Connectivity Map: A Visual Diagram Depicting Informatics Tools and the Relationships Between Them

NCI’s Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) program supports a wide range of cancer informatics tools. Curious to see what those tools are and how they are integrated? Check out the ITCR Connectivity Map!

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Join the Discussions on Biologically Informed Models of Combination Therapies: Apply by Nov. 22

NCI's Division of Cancer Biology and IBM Research are hosting an "Ideas Lab" January 24-28, 2022. Cancer researchers, biomedical engineers, and computational experts are invited to team up and help design innovative approaches for modeling combination therapies to combat/treat cancer. The event registration deadline is Monday, November 22.

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CBIIT, NCI, and Colleagues Set New Bioinformatic Benchmarks for Genetic Variants in Two Distinct Cell Lines Linked to Breast Cancer

Staff from CBIIT and NCI, alongside partners from NIH, FDA, and a consortium of scientists from across the world, joined forces to create reference samples and data call sets to help the cancer community further decipher cancer-related gene mutations. Their findings were recently published in Nature Biotechnology.

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New Webinar “SEERies” Features NCI Analytic Tools for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Data and Other Cancer Surveillance Data

The NCI Surveillance Research Program is hosting several webinars in October and November on resources for the analysis of SEER data and other cancer surveillance data. These webinars will include information on SEER*Stat, statistics, variables, methods, and software.

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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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Submit Abstracts for the Seventh Computational Approaches for Cancer Workshop

Data scientists, cancer biologists, and computational scientists are invited to submit abstracts to the Computational Approaches for Cancer Workshop (CAFCW21). Papers should focus on the application of computational approaches to cancer challenges, and those selected will be presented at the workshop. Abstract submissions are due by Monday, September 13.

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