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The CRDC has launched a new Data Submission Portal open to NCI and NIH-funded researchers looking to share their data through the NCI’s primary data sharing platform, CRDC. The new Data Submission Portal supports researchers by streamlining two processes: completing a data Submission Request (i.e. inquiring if their study data can be shared through the CRDC), and once approved, completing their Data Submission (i.e. uploading their data files) through a more transparent process.Step-by-step gu....
Data Commons Genomic Data Commons (GDC): Earlier this spring, the GDC team added a series of video tutorials to their support page focused on building cohorts and using analysis tools for performing both gene-level variant analysis and clinical data analysis. Find these tutorials on the GDC portal. The GDC 2.2 McClintock Release, which offers many new features and a new Gene Expression API, was launched in June. This release signifies the official launch of GDC 2.0 and the retirem....
Registration is open through August 15th for the MIDI-B Challenge – the NCI Medical Image De-Identification Benchmark Challenge. This is for developers (independent, academic, or industrial) who want to assess their automated image de-identification algorithms and software tools’ performance against a dataset of DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) images that will be made available to challenge participants.The top three ranked teams from this challenge will receive i....
Vaidhyanathan (Vaidhy) Mahaganapathy, Ph.D., is a Computational Biologist focused on genomics research for the Applied AI team at the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT). He recently spoke with CRDC Insights, reflecting on the support he received during his dissertation research from the team at Seven Bridges-Cancer Genomic Cloud (SB-CGC), powered by Velsera. He also commented on the complexity of working with huge datasets and trends in cancer research data science, and offered advice to grad....
The winners of the recent NCI Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Readiness Challenge presented their findings and recommendations for improving the AI readiness of NCI CRDC data. Access a recording of the webinar.Recommendations from the winners include, among others:Make CRDC data and metadata more interoperable across all CRDC Data Commons and Cloud Resources with consistent terminologies and schema.Develop a unified exploration portal to make it easier to se....