Our next scheduled meeting will take place on Tuesday, April 5th at 11am PT / 2pm ET. This meeting will include R03 presentations and a presentation on converting data into the C2M2. 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 [email protected] if you have something to share!
The week of February 21-25, 2022, we hosted the first Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) Hackathon. The goals of the hackathon were to increase familiarity with data sets from Common Fund programs and work towards cross-cutting, integrative analyses. You can read a summary and view presentations given here: http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/2022-feb-hackathon.html
We are also excited to announce that the second CFDE Hackathon will take place April 25 - 29th! We're going to fine tune the event with the feedback from our February event, and we hope you will join us!
If you are interested in learning more about attending the April 2022 Hackathon as a participant, please register here! We hope to see you there :)
On March 7th and 9th we are running our two-part RNA-Seq in the Cloud 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 [email protected]
The new NIH Common Fund Program - Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues (SMaHT) will start in 2023 (https://commonfund.nih.gov/smaht).
The goal of this new program is to propel discovery of new biological processes in human health and disease that are mediated by genomic variation in somatic tissues. There are three main areas of interest in the first five years of the program: 1) Building a scaffold and foundational datasets that catalog somatic variation across a set of common tissues from a diverse donor pool, 2) developing tools focused on increasing the sensitivity of detection and specificity of the pipelines to detect multiple types of variations, and 3) creating a variant catalog, portal, and integrated workbench that facilitates access to the tools, technologies, and data developed by the Network.
Five initiatives have recently been issued to achieve these goals:
RFA-RM-22-011 -Technology and Tools Development Projects will develop next generation tools focused on significantly improving detection and characterization of somatic variants: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-22-011.html RFA-RM-22-012 - Tissue Procurement Center will collect, process, and distribute a set of 10-15 high quality human tissues from a diverse donor cohort: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-22-012.html RFA-RM-22-013 - Genome Characterization Centers will use state-of-the-art genomics sequencing technologies to identify all types of somatic variation in tissues from the Tissue Procurement Center: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-22-013.html RFA-RM-22-009 - Organizational Center will coordinate Network activities and establish strong links with related NIH and international programs: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-22-009.html RFA-RM-22-010 - Data Analysis Center will integrate the data generated by the Network to build the variant catalog, portal, and workbench: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-22-010.html
While Letters of Intent are not required, they are strongly encouraged. They are due June 8, 2022. Applications are due July 8, 2022.
A Technical Assistance Webinar will be held at 12:00pm EDT on Friday, April 29, 2022. Please check the SMaHT website (https://commonfund.nih.gov/smaht) for details.
For more information, please check the SMaHT FAQ page (https://commonfund.nih.gov/smaht/faqs) or contact us at [email protected]mailto:[email protected] Please share this announcement with anyone you think would be interested.
| Working Group | Date | Time | Agenda |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anatomy | TBD | 9am PT / 12pm ET | Anatomy WG |
| Gene | TBD | 11am PT / 2pm ET | Gene WG |
| Gene Expression | March 14th | 11am PT / 2pm ET | Gene Expression Data Exchange |
| Knowledge Graph | March 15th | 12pm PT / 3pm ET | Knowledge Graph WG |
| Ontology | March 9th | 8am PT / 11am ET | Ontology WG |
| PEET | TBD | PEET Charter | |
| Variant | March 14th | 1pm PT / 4pm ET | Variant WG |
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/activities in the CFDE, contact our helpdesk at [email protected]
Thank you all for your efforts and have a great week!
Jeremy Walter