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Are you and your colleagues interested in helping maintain and grow the Proteomic Data Commons (PDC)? NCI has a new contract opportunity to support PDC’s current operations as well as build in new enhancements. Proposals are due Friday, September 29, 2023.

NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program is marking 50 years of cancer surveillance research and launching three new initiatives that are likely to be of particular interest to the data science field. These efforts include a Virtual Tissue Repository, a Virtual Pooled Registry, and a partnership with the Department of Energy to develop application programming interfaces.

Author: Rowan Beck, PhD, Community Engagement Manager, Seven Bridges  Min Zhang, MD, PhD, a professor at Purdue University, is passionate about developing new statistical approaches for high-dimensional data involved in biological research. She often develops lesson plans and workshops for students centered around statistical methods and bioinformatic analysis with a focus on cancer data. Dr. Zhang is a professor in the Department of Statistics at Purdue University and Associate Director of....

Planning your itinerary for this year’s American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting? Want to make sure you catch the NCI-affiliated data science activities? We’ve put together a helpful reference page for you!

Nature Communications: Slim, an open-source, web-based slide microscopy tool New viewer and annotation tool closes the gap between radiology and pathology imaging A team of researchers led by Markus Herrmann, MD, PhD, Director of Computational Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, have developed Slim, an open-source, web-based slide microscopy viewer and annotation tool that closes the gap between radiology and pathology....