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National Cancer Institute's Cancer Imaging Data Commons is Live
Thursday, October 22, 2020 — Seeking useful data that can be used today? Look no further for rich sets of radiology and medical imaging data; NCI’s Imaging Data Commons (IDC) is… Read More
The Case for Making Data as Open as Possible
Monday, September 21, 2020 — Lessons Learned from the NIH Generalist Repository Pilot Read More
NCI’s Center for Biomedical Informatics and IT Seeks Associate Director for Informatics and Data Science
Wednesday, August 26, 2020 — Apply by Sept. 21 Read More
Find Canine Cancer Data at the Integrated Canine Data Commons
Wednesday, August 26, 2020 — The latest repository in the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons, the Integrated Canine Data Commons (ICDC), has launched! Read More
NIH Issues Notice Encouraging Researchers to Adopt U.S. Core Data for Interoperability Standard
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently released a guide notice (NOT-OD-20-146) encouraging NIH-supported clinical programs and researchers… Read More
Generalist Repository Pilot Outcomes, Comparison Chart Now Available
Monday, July 20, 2020 — The National Institutes of Health’s Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) recently completed the NIH Figshare Instance, a one-year pilot project, as… Read More
NIH-wide Strategic Plan for COVID-19 Research Includes Focus on Data Science Efforts
Thursday, July 16, 2020 — The National Institutes of Health recently released its strategic plan for COVID-19 research. Read More
NIH Figshare Instance Pilot to Conclude July 15
Thursday, June 25, 2020 — The National Institutes of Health’s Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) and Figshare, a generalist data repository, will conclude the NIH Figshare… Read More
Building a COVID-19 Analytics Platform to Turn Clinical Data into Knowledge
Friday, June 19, 2020 — The National Institutes of Health has launched a centralized, secure enclave to store and study vast amounts of medical record data from people… Read More
Sixth Computational Approaches for Cancer Workshop
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 — Abstract Submissions Due Sept. 6 Read More
precisionFDA’s Truth Challenge v2: Calling Variants from Short and Long Reads in Difficult-to-Map Regions
Monday, June 1, 2020 — Submissions Due June 8 Read More
Veterans Health Administration Launching COVID-19 Risk Factor Modeling Challenge
Monday, June 1, 2020 — Challenge Opens June 2 Read More
“The TRUST Principles for Digital Repositories” Published in Scientific Data
Monday, June 1, 2020 — Many in the data science community are familiar with the FAIR principles—a set of principles to make data findable, accessible, interoperable, and… Read More
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