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Integrated Canine Data Commons Has New Data from a European Top 10 Study List

Looking for canine urothelial carcinoma data? RNA sequencing and clinical data from a phase I/II trial, listed in the EACR’s top 10 publications, is available for analysis through NCI’s Integrated Canine Data Commons.

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Keeping Big Data Fraud at Bay With Machine Learning

NCI’s Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research’s new blog highlights recent findings from scientists in the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium. It describes a proof-of-concept approach to identifying fraudulent data in biological data sets.

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Apply for Image Bioinformatics Scientist Position Supporting NCI’s Center for Cancer Research Artificial Intelligence Resource

NCI’s Center for Cancer Research invites applicants with image processing, machine learning, and deep learning experience to be considered for a federal image bioinformatics scientist position supporting the Artificial Intelligence Resource. The successful candidate will develop and implement automated imaging and data processing workflows to analyze large image data sets generated by confocal microscopes.

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New Clinical Data Added to the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons

The NCI Cancer Research Data Commons has recently added 1,000 new clinical outcome data files for Clinical Proteomic Tumor Atlas Consortium (CPTAC) studies to NCI’s Genomic Data Commons and Proteomic Data Commons.

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Access Publicly Available Imaging Data from the National Lung Screening Trial

More than 70,000 CT scans from the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) are now publicly available (no data access request needed). Read more to learn how to access this data through NCI resources.

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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 Data and Updated Features at NCI's Imaging Data Commons

The NCI Cancer Research Data Commons’ Imaging Data Commons (IDC) has updated to include more features and 16 terabytes of medical imaging data files for cancer researchers and imaging informaticists.

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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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Genomic Data from Chernobyl Studies Is Now Available in the Genomic Data Commons

The NCI Genomic Data Commons now has two new projects from studies about the potential health effects of exposure to ionizing radiation from the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine.

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Apply for Bioinformatics Postdoctoral Position to Study Genomics of Complex Childhood Disorders at the Center for Precision Health Research

Apply to join the bioinformatics community at NCI’s sister institute, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). NHGRI’s Childhood Complex Disease Genomics Section is recruiting a bioinformatics-focused postdoctoral fellow to analyze phenotypic and genomic data in support of research for a broad range of childhood health issues in African and African-ancestry populations.

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