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Two CRDC teams presented at the NCI Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) Annual Meeting in mid-September. Both presentations focused on supporting researchers who want to create or bring their own tools to CRDC platforms for tailored inquiries.    CRDC’s Erin Beck co....

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting was held April 2023 in Orlando, Florida, attracting more than 21,000 attendees – in person and virtual – from across national and international cancer research communities. Abstracts for most sessions are publicly availa....

The TARGET datasets are huge. In Wilms Tumor alone, hundreds of tumors were sequenced in our effort to define the genetic landscape of this pediatric cancer. There is so much in that dataset that there are bound to be more discoveries in the future. Additional knowledge comes out as researchers go....

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 studi....

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 po....