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NCI Funding Opportunities for Measuring the Validity of Currently Existing Digital Health and AI/ML Technologies

NIH Institutes and Centers (including NCI) are interested in the validity, reliability, and utility of digital health tools and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) technologies. You can apply for NCI funding to support the validation of these technologies for cancer research.

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Childhood Cancer Clinical Data Commons: A New Web Application for Your Data Needs

Find harmonized demographic and clinical data in this new data commons from NCI’s Childhood Cancer Data Initiative!

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Childhood Cancer Data Initiative—Recent Activities and Next Steps

Learn about the latest programs in NCI’s Childhood Cancer Data Initiative. A newly published summary offers an update on what’s underway and a forecast for future research.

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NCI Data Science at the 2024 AACR Annual Meeting

Are you planning to attend this year’s American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting? Make sure to add these NCI-affiliated data science activities to your schedule!

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NCI CBIIT Presenters at the AMIA Informatics Summit 2024

Attending the AMIA 2024 Informatics Summit? Don't miss these NCI CBIIT-affiliated data science sessions!

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COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium Wins the NIH/FASEB DataWorks! Prize Challenge

Learn more about the team that won the 2023 DataWorks! Challenge Grand Prize. The winners crowdsourced data gathering and used a common, interoperable platform to understand the impacts of COVID-19 on people with a current or past history of cancer.

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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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Advance Your Skills in AI and GitHub Through These ITCR Training Network Courses

Looking to become more familiar with artificial intelligence and GitHub for your data science needs? Check out these two courses from the Informatics Technology for Cancer Research Training Network.

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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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Give Your Input on the Updated NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science

What do you think of the updated Strategic Plan for Data Science from NIH? Respond to this Request for Information by March 15!

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