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New Request for Information Seeks Public Input on Use of Cloud Resources and New File Formats for Sequence Read Archive Data
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 — Submissions Due July 17 Read More
NCI Cancer Data Aggregator (CDA) Awarded to Consortium
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 — Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR) awarded a contract to develop the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) Cancer Data… Read More
NCI-DOE Collaboration 2020 Ideas Lab: Toward Building a Cancer Patient “Digital Twin”
Monday, April 20, 2020 — Apply by April 30 Read More
The NCI Proteomic Data Commons Is Now Live!
Monday, March 23, 2020 — The National Cancer Institute announces the launch of the NCI Proteomic Data Commons (PDC)! Read More
NIAMS Requesting Input to Advance AI-ready Data Generation and Scalable Computational Approaches
Monday, March 16, 2020 — Responses Due May 1 Read More
Notice of Special Interest: Administrative Supplements to Support Enhancement of Software Tools for Open Science
Friday, March 13, 2020 — Apply by May 15 Read More
NHLBI Announces Big Data Challenge to Create New Paradigms for Heart Failure Research
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 — The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute recently announced the Big Data Challenge: Creating New Paradigms for Heart Failure Research. NHLBI… Read More
All Sequence Read Archive (SRA) Data Now Available in the Cloud
Monday, March 2, 2020 — On Feb. 24, the National Library of Medicine announced that all controlled-access and publicly available data in the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) is… Read More
Office of Data Science Strategy: 2019 Year in Review
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 — 2019 was a year of growth and new initiatives for the Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS). Formed in late 2018 as part of the Division of… Read More
A Request for Proposals (RFP) has been released to build the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Cancer Data Aggregator.
Friday, January 31, 2020 — Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research requests proposals to develop a query engine called the Cancer Data Aggregator (CDA). The CDA… Read More
Metadata Automation DREAM Challenge is Open
Friday, January 31, 2020 — The Metadata Automation DREAM Challenge is open for registration. Using structured biomedical data files, participants will develop solutions that… Read More
NIH announces two new funding opportunities related to biomedical data repositories and knowledgebases
Friday, January 17, 2020 — NIH announces two new funding opportunities related to biomedical data repositories (PAR-20-089) and knowledgebases (PAR-20-097). Read More
Request for Public Comment on Draft Desirable Characteristics of Repositories for Managing and Sharing Data Resulting From Federally Funded Research
Friday, January 17, 2020 — The Office of Science Technology and Policy issues a request for public comment on draft desirable characteristics of repositories for… Read More
NIAID Offering Emerging Leaders in Data Science Fellowship
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 — Deadline to Apply is Feb. 29 Read More
Office of Data Science Strategy Recruiting for Two New Positions
Wednesday, January 8, 2020 — Apply by Jan. 30 Read More