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2 years ago CFDE Announcements
Cross-Pollination Events
Our next scheduled meeting will take place on Tuesday, March 1st at 11am PT / 2pm ET. This meeting will include R03 presentations and a presentation on a GTEx + HuBMAP Collaboration. 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 at support@cfde.atlassian.net if you have something to share!
Common Fund Hackathon
From February 21-25 the CFDE will be hosting a Virtual Hackathon to explore and collaborate on member datasets and tools. Check out our website for more details about the schedule, benefits, and schedule for the event. Then go to our events page to register. If you have questions get in touch with us at training@cfde.atlassian.net
CFDE Training Efforts
On Wednesday, February 16th, we will offer our two-hour RNA-Seq Concepts, Design & Workflows workshop. 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
Funding Opportunity Announcement
Several valuable and widely available data sets have been generated by multiple Common Fund programs. The Pilot Projects Enhancing Utility and Usage of Common Fund Data Sets (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-RM-22-007) funding opportunity targets work designed to demonstrate and enhance the utility of selected Common Fund data sets, including generating hypotheses and catalyzing discoveries. Award recipients are asked to provide feedback on the utility of the Common Fund data resources.
Eligible Common Fund Program Data Sets 4DN, ExRNA, Gabriella Miller Kids First, GTEx, Glycosciences, HuBMAP, IDG, iHMP, KOMP2, LINCS, Metabolomics, MoTrPAC, SPARC
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. Applications are due February 18, 2022, by 5:00 pm local time of the applicant organization.
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 Kids 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.
| Working Group | Date | Time | Agenda |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anatomy | TBD | 9am PT / 12pm ET | Anatomy WG |
| Gene | TBD | 11am PT / 2pm ET | Gene WG |
| Gene Expression | February 28th | 11am PT / 2pm ET | Gene Expression Data Exchange |
| Knowledge Graph | TBD | ||
| Ontology | February 23rd | 8am PT / 11am ET | Ontology WG |
| PEET | TBD | PEET Charter | |
| Variant | March 14th | 1pm PT / 4pm ET | Variant WG |
Contributing
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Thank you all for your efforts and have a great week!
Jeremy Walter
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