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What's BIG This Week - 01/30/09
| Greetings caBIG® Participants: | |||||||||
For all of the latest information on the caBIG® initiative please see "What's New" below, or go to the "caBIG® News" section on the right-hand side of the caBIG® Web site at: https://caBIG.nci.nih.gov. The list of meetings below can also be found on the caBIG® Web site (https://caBIG.nci.nih.gov) and are open to anyone who is interested, regardless of workspace affiliation. If you'd like to attend, please send an e-mail or call the workspace coordinator to ensure we have a teleconference line reserved for you. Links to contact information are given at the end of this newsletter. If space on a call becomes limited, priority will be given to funded participants, as these are working meetings.
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| caBIG® Events This Week | |||||||||
Date: February 2, 2009 |
Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm ET | ||||||||
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Event: Imaging Workspace - Community Meeting - Teleconference
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CANCELLED: February 4, 2009 |
Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET | ||||||||
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Event: Documentation and Training Workspace - Teleconference |
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Date: February 5, 2009 |
Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm ET | ||||||||
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Event: Vocabularies & Common Data Elements Workspace - Teleconference
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Date: February 5, 2009 |
Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm ET | ||||||||
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Event: Data Sharing and Intellectual Capital Workspace - Teleconference
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| caBIG® Events Next Week | |||||||||
| Date: February 9, 2009 | |||||||||
Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm ET |
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| Date: February 11, 2009 | |||||||||
Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm ET |
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Date: February 13, 2009 |
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Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm ET |
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| What Was BIG Recently | |||||||||
Date: January 8, 2009 |
Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm ET |
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Event: Vocabularies & Common Data Elements Workspace - Teleconference
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Date: January 7, 2009 |
Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET | ||||||||
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Event: Documentation & Training Workspace - Teleconference
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| caBIG® in the News | |||||||||
January 5, 2009: caBIG®: Fostering Better Connections with Open Source Software, Bio-IT World – This article highlights the recent release of Version 1.1 of the caBIG® Clinical Trials Suite. In the article, John Speakman, Associate Director of Clinical Trials Products and Programs at the National Cancer Institute’s Center for Bioinformatics and Information Technology (NCI CBIIT), says the new version is more easily configured and installed and also offers enhanced user interfaces and documentation. Speakman added that it is “by and large generic,” so it can be used in fields beyond cancer. To view the full article, please visit: http://www.bio-itworld.com/news/2009/01/05/caBIG-open-source-software.html. |
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| If you would like to submit information regarding news articles or press releases which are specific to caBIG®-related tools or data sets, please forward them for consideration to: anderson_cheryl@bah.com. | |||||||||
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| What's New | |||||||||
Check the "News" section of the caBIG® Web site for the latest and greatest announcements surrounding caBIG®. |
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| caBIG® Business Opportunities: | |||||||||
* Amendment 02 for the caBIG® In Silico Research Centers Request for Proposal -- Solicitation No. S09-094: Amendment 02 for the caBIG® In Silico Research Centers Request for Proposal, issued December 19, 2008, is now available and can be downloaded from https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/FCRF/S09-094/listing.html. This amendment incorporates additional Questions and Responses received in reference to Solicitation No. S09-094 – caBIG® In Silico Research Centers and the associated Amendment No. 01, which was issued on January 13th and is also posted at https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/FCRF/S09-094/listing.html. All proposals must be received by 4:00 p.m. (EST) on February 20, 2009. Please see Section L: Instructions, Conditions, and Notices to Offerors for Proposal Preparation Instructions and refer to Amendments 01 and 02, Attachment I – Questions and Responses, for further instruction pertaining to the preparation of proposals. All Price Proposals must be submitted using the template found at Amendment 01, Attachment II – Price Proposal Template. For convenience, an Excel version of this Price Proposal Template may be found at https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/FCRF/S09-094/listing.html. |
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| caBIG® News: | |||||||||
* Gene Abnormality Found To Predict Childhood Leukemia Relapse; Data Now Available through TARGET Portal, Enabled by caBIG® Technology: Scientists have identified mutations in a gene that predict a high likelihood of relapse in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Although the researchers caution that further research is needed to determine how changes in the gene IKZF1, which encodes the lymphoid transcription factor IKAROS, lead to leukemia relapse, the findings are likely to provide the basis for future diagnostic tests to assess the risk of treatment failure. By using a molecular test to identify this genetic marker in ALL patients, physicians should be better able to assign patients to appropriate therapies. The findings of the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) study, led by scientists from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tenn., the University of New Mexico Cancer Research and Treatment Center, Albuquerque, N.M., and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, appear online today in the New England Journal of Medicine, and in print on Jan. 29, 2009. This research was done as part of the NCI Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments (TARGET) initiative, which seeks to utilize the study of genomics to identify therapeutic targets in order to develop more effective treatments for childhood cancers. To view the entire news release, visit: http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/pressreleases/ALLTARGET. Coinciding with the publication of these results, the TARGET data is available online in a new data portal (http://target.cancer.gov/dataportal/) enabled by caBIG® technology. The TARGET Data Portal currently includes gene expression characterization, genomic characterization, and gene sequencing data for ALL. New data will be added to the databases on a continuing basis as they are generated by the TARGET initiative. For more details about the NCI TARGET initiative, including FAQs, a glossary, more about ALL, and more about the collaborators, please go to http://target.cancer.gov. For more information about cancer and the National Cancer Institute, please visit the NCI Web site at http://www.cancer.gov, or call NCI’s Cancer Information Services at 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237). |
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| Knowledge Center Announcements: | |||||||||
* Tissue/Biospecimen Banking and Technology Tools - Webinar on Friday, Feb. 6, 2009: The Tissue/Biospecimen Banking and Technology Tools Knowledge Center is pleased to announce a Webinar that will take place on Feb. 6. Details are as follows:
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| caBIG®-Related Meetings: | |||||||||
* Upcoming caBIG® Workspace Face-to-Face Meetings:
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| caCORE News This Week: | |||||||||
* caCORE Training Schedule: Below is a list of upcoming caCORE instructor-led training courses.
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| Mailing List Inquiries | |||||||||
If you would like to join the caBIG® mailing list, the list is open to the public and participation is voluntary. Anyone who would like to join (or unsubscribe from) the list may go to: https://list.nih.gov/archives/cabig_announce.html. Also, for workspace-specific listservs, please go to: https://list.nih.gov/, click on “Browse” and then search using “caBIG” as your keyword to find the listservs that correspond to your areas of interest. The teleconference agendas and dial-in information are sent out on these listservs, so signing up for the appropriate listservs is a good way to keep up-to-date on caBIG® progress. |
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| caBIG® Workspace Information | |||||||||
Please visit https://caBIG.nci.nih.gov/contact_us to get contact information for Workspace coordinators and Special Interest Group leads. You can also visit the following link for workspace-specific information: https://caBIG.nci.nih.gov/workspaces. |
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