CFDE Announcements to Post 12-12-2022

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Welcome

GlyGen: Charles Hadley King

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CFDE Announcements -- DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT

Cross-Pollination Meeting

The next meeting is Tuesday, January 3rd, at 2 pm ET/ 11 am PT. The meeting agenda includes and R03 presentation and an introduction to the HEAL Initiative. Regular Cross-Pollination events take place on the first Tuesday of every month. View the Cross-Pollination Schedule for more details. Email support@cfde.atlassian.net if you would like to present.

C2M2 Submissions

The currernt data submission period for C2M2 is taking place now, between December 1st and January 9th. Successful new submissions are planned to roll out to production on January 19th.

RFC - Building Ontology Sims

One RFC is now available for comment by the community until December 25th

• Building Ontology Slims for CFDE

RFC stands for “Requests for Comments”. These are proposals being made by members of the CFDE to suggest that the CFDE community as a whole adopt the suggested new best practice. Everyone in the community is invited to respond to these proposals by leaving comments, critiques, and support at the links above. Comments are open for one month at which point the documents will be reviewed. If there are no substantial objections to the RFC in that time, it will be adopted as a CFDE Best Practice. You can read more about our RFC process here.

NextFlow Workflow Language Release

Seven Bridges has released NextFlow as an additional workflow language! The Seven Bridges team is looking for users to test the implementation. If you would like to be part of a 45 min user centric design interview and be compensated $75, please fill out this form.

CFDE Funding Opportunity

Pilot Projects Enhancing Utility and Usage of Common Fund Data Sets (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-RM-23-003)

The goals of this funding opportunity announcement (RFA-RM-23-003) are to 1) promote the use of Common Fund data sets by supporting pilot studies based on analyses across two or more Common Fund program data sets; 2) enhance the utility of existing Common Fund data sets by developing workflows, analytic and simulation tools which will enable simultaneous analysis of multiple Common Fund data sets; and 3) demonstrate the added-value of integrating multiple Common Fund data resources in addressing biomedical research questions.

Eligible Common Fund Program Data Sets

• 4D Nucleome (4DN)
• Extracellular RNA Communication (ExRNA)
• Gabriella First Kids First (KF)
• Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx)
• Glycoscience (GL)
• Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP)
• Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG)
• Integrated Human Microbiome Project (iHMP)
• Knockout Mouse Phenotyping Program (KOMP2)
• Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures (LINCS)
• Metabolomics Workbench
• Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity in Humans (MoTrPAC)
• Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC)

Applications are due February 3, 2023, 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.

Working Group Updates

You can find a list of CFDE WGs and linked agendas on the Cross-Pollination Meeting Schedule. Currently scheduled working group meetings are as follow:	Working Group	Date	Time	Agenda
Knowledge Graph	Dec 21st	12pm PT / 3pm ET	Knowledge Graph WG
Ontology	Dec 14th	8am PT / 11am ET	Ontology WG

Welcome

GlyGen: Charles Hadley King

Contributing

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