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The Cancer Data Service (CDS) Portal is now live. This brings cancer researchers expanded capacity and flexibility when using the NCI data ecosystem.

The new Cancer Data Service (CDS) portal is live. The CDS is a data commons within the Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) infrastructure that adds important capacity and flexibility to the NCI data ecosystem.  CDS provides secure data storage and sharing capabilities for NCI-funded studies that fall under the following categories: Studies with data that do not match an existing CRDC data commons  Studies with data that do not fit current data type criteria and/or the min....

The Washington Post recently ran a story quoting Dr. Amy LeBlanc, DVM, director of NCI’s Comparative Oncology Program and a member of the Integrated Canine Data Commons (ICDC) Steering Committee. Additionally, Dr. LeBlanc is a member of the NCI Senior Advisory Committee that serves as the final point of approval and prioritization for incoming data submission requests for the ICDC. From the Washington Post: Dogs and their owners are said to look alike, but that resemblance is more than....

IDC recently announced a new partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Open Data Sponsorship program. Through this partnership, IDC is making versioned IDC data available from AWS S3 buckets. Learn more on the AWS site about this sponsorship. Researchers can now choose to download IDC data from either the Google Cloud Computing Services or the AWS storage location, depending on compute needs and preferences. IDC has updated its data download instructions and its Getting Started tutor....

Story to come about Wilms Tumor research and data access.   ....