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Apply Now for Deputy Scientific Information Officer Role at NICHD

Do you have a passion and experience with data sharing, management, IT governance, and working in a laboratory setting? Apply to work at NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

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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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Explore the Latest Updates to NCI Thesaurus

NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services published the latest updates to NCI Thesaurus, which includes data supporting osteosarcoma for the Pediatric Cancer Data Commons and a new value set containing COVID-19 vocabulary.

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Share Feedback on NCI’s Imaging Data Commons

Do you work with imaging data and tools? Share feedback on NCI’s Imaging Data Commons!

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Deadline Extended: Submit Abstracts for the Eighth Computational Approaches for Cancer Workshop by August 16

As the necessity for and availability of large data sets in cancer applications grows, so do the challenges when conducting research and clinical applications with computational solutions. Share your experience with how to address such challenges.

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Acute Myeloid Leukemia Data Set Now Includes Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Data

With funding from NCI’s Childhood Cancer Data Initiative, researchers at Oregon Health & Science University’s Knight Cancer Institute have shared new data from pediatric, adolescent, and young adult patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

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Compete in the MICCAI 2022 Federated Learning Breast Density Challenge

Data scientists, informaticists, and medical physicists are invited to develop the best, most generalizable models, algorithms, and approaches for breast density estimation using image-based distributed or federated learning.

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NIH Seeks Public Comments on Draft of Supplemental Information to the NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing

NIH has issued a request for public comments on draft supplemental information to the NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing. Responses will be accepted through June 27, 2022.

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New Optimized Workflow Offers Comprehensive Characterization of Childhood Cancers

Genomic studies of childhood and rare cancers got a major boost, as a new optimized workflow for managing these data was recently reported in Nature Communications. And, thanks to funding by NCI’s Childhood Cancer Data Initiative, it’s easier and faster to share those data with the cancer research community.

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Maximizing Data—The Future of Cancer is Now

In this JAMA Oncology Viewpoint opinion article, Dr. Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, NCI’s associate director for Informatics and Data Science, discusses NCI’s large-scale data sharing and access efforts. She also stresses that as we continue to generate cancer data, free and open scientific data should be treated as a public good.

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