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New Platform for Prioritizing Genetic Variants Underlying Cancer Risk

Are you having trouble prioritizing which genetic variants to study in your cancer research? There’s a new platform, called FORGEdb, that can help you pinpoint promising variants and target genes.

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cBioPortal Updates Offer Joint Analysis of Genetic and Clinical Data

Interested in blending clinical and genetic data? Upgrades in cBioPortal can help you work with these very different data types to better understand cancer and how it progresses over time.

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Create Educational Courses and Encourage the Use of Common Fund Data Sets

This Notice of Funding Opportunity will allow you to create and run a short course to educate early career researchers on using data sets available in NIH’s Common Fund.

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The Cancer Imaging Archive Adds New Data

Discover new data collections available for you to use in your cancer research!

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Eight Research Projects Receive Funding from NCI’s Childhood Cancer Data Initiative

The Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI) awarded administrative supplements to eight NCI-Designated Cancer Centers, enabling research that leverages the CCDI Data Ecosystem to address scientific questions and create analytical tools for advancing childhood cancer research.

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New NCI-Supported Platform for Open Data Challenges

Explore a resource that lets you search for data challenges that address areas of unmet medical need!

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The Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI) Releases ‘Explore Dashboard’ to Make Data More Findable

Do you use CCDI-managed data? Check out the CCDI Hub Explore Dashboard, a tool that allows you to discover CCDI-managed data and connect with participants and available samples and files.

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New Approach Helps Address Lack of Diversity in GWAS Cancer Data

In a recent study, NCI’s Dr. Haoyu Zhang describes CT-SLEB—a powerful and computationally scalable method for generating more precise polygenic risk scores across a range of ancestral groups (including Latino, African American, East Asian, and South Asian).

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Search Engine Tool Targets Peptide in Mass Spectrometry Proteomic Data Sets

PepQuery2 is a proteomics tool that enables rapid and targeted identification of both known and novel peptide sequences in proteomics data sets. The tool aims to provide valuable data sets for the broader research community by making public proteomics data more accessible and user-friendly.

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Personalized Calculator Predicts Oral Cancer Survival

Discover how SEER data and statistical models can help personalize oral cancer treatments.

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