CFDE Announcements to Post 01-24-2022

[jeremywalter]

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[khanshawPSC]

Announce Knowledge Graph WG to CFDE Community: The CFDE Knowledge Graph Working Group has been established and will be co-chaired by Deanne Taylor from Kid's First and Jonathan Silverstein from HuBMAP. Those who have previously expressed interest in participating, please send an email to Kevin Hanshaw (kjhanshaw@psc.edu) to be included in any future correspondence about the WG. More details will be made available during the February 1st Cross-Pollination meeting.

[ctb]

Announce --

Dear Common Fund Partners,

We are looking for Common Fund partners (you!) who have data sets that can be part of an upcoming hackathon, including both DCCs and R03 awardees. The CFDE-CC will provide all of the advertising, scheduling, and participant wrangling by default. What we would like from you is data sets and/or analysis that you’d like shared with new users. To indicate interest in being part of the hackathon, please fill out the below Google form by Friday, January 28th. The form will ask you to describe potential dataset(s) or analysis programs in 1-2 sentences and indicate your availability.

Google form URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYpOiA9uXtT0vc-VY0TYKkZ0fArRgfE1dbdPsufEiFBAqLIg/viewform

More hackathon details, as well as a draft announcement, are below. We welcome suggestions!

Thank you!

Titus Brown, For the CFDE-CC training team!

[jeremywalter]

CFDE Announcements - DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT

Pilot Projects Enhancing Utility and Usage of Common Fund Data Sets (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-RM-22-007)

Eligible Common Fund Program Data Sets 4DN, ExRNA, Gabriells Miller Kids First, GTEx, Glycosciences, HuBMAP, IDG, iHMP, KOMP2, LINCS, Metabolomics, MoTrPAC, SPARC

Applications are due February 18, 2022, by 5:00 pm local time of the applicant organization.

Find answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and learn more on the Enhancing the Use of Common Fund Data website. You can contact the CFDE team at CFDE@od.nih.gov with any additional questions. Please share this information widely with interested colleagues and relevant email lists.

Cross-Pollination Events

Our next scheduled meeting will take place on Tuesday, February 1st at 11am PT / 2pm ET. Regular Cross-Pollination events take place on the first Tuesday of every month. Please check out the Cross-Pollination Schedule for more details. We are currently looking for speakers for our February meeting. Please let us know if you have something to share!

CFDE Hackathon

We are looking for Common Fund partners (you!) who have data sets that can be part of an upcoming hackathon, including both DCCs and R03 awardees. The CFDE-CC will provide all of the advertising, scheduling, and participant wrangling by default. What we would like from you is data sets and/or analyses that you’d like shared with new users. To indicate interest in being part of the hackathon, please fill out this Google form by Friday, January 28th. The form will ask you to describe potential dataset(s) or analysis programs in 1-2 sentences and indicate your availability.

CFDE Training Efforts

The second part of our Intro to Cloud Computig Series, Intro to AWS for Cloud Computing, will take place on Wednesday, January 26th. You can sign up even if you missed the first (Intro to UNIX) session. Check out our Events Calendar for details and registration availability. If you have questions or suggestions for our training team, get in touch with us at training@cfde.atlassian.net

Working Group Updates

Knowledge Graph Working Group

The CFDE Knowledge Graph Working Group has been established and will be co-chaired by Deanne Taylor from Kid's First and Jonathan Silverstein from HuBMAP. Those who have previously expressed interest in participating, please send an email to Kevin Hanshaw (kjhanshaw@psc.edu) to be included in any future correspondence about the WG. More details will be made available during the February 1st Cross-Pollination meeting.

Working Group	Date	Time	Agenda
Anatomy	TBD	9am PT / 12pm ET	Anatomy WG
Gene	February 10th	11am PT / 2pm ET	Gene WG
Gene Expression	January 31st	11am PT / 2pm ET	Gene Expression Data Exchange
Ontology	January 26th	8am PT / 11am ET	Ontology WG
PEET	TBD		PEET Charter
Variant	February 8th	1pm PT / 4pm ET	Variant WG

Contributing

You can contribute to the next announcements by commenting on the open announcements issue in this repository. Share your events and updates by posting links and descriptions in our announcements issue! If you have questions about these or other events/activites in the CFDE, contact our helpdesk at support@cfde.atlassian.net

Thank you all for your efforts and have a great week!

Jeremy Walter