The Childhood Cancer Data Lab, founded by @alexslemonade, is at the intersection of big data and childhood cancer research. Read our blog: https://xitter.cf/t.co/7GRvCQQrOn
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Oct 14, 2:30 PM ET, Ladders 2 Cures Accelerator Meeting: Each pediatric cancer is a rare disease, so data aggregated across institutions is a force multiplier. This talk covers building ScPCA for reuse, with lessons for rare disease data resources. Join: broad.io/L2CAM
She'll also preview the Portal's upcoming integration with the CCDI ecosystem and discuss OpenScPCA, our open science project for transparently trying new approaches with ScPCA data, plus the architecture that supports long-lived collaborative projects.
Oct 13, 1 PM ET, CCDI Monthly Webinar: a practical tour of the ScPCA Portal, with uniformly processed sc/snRNA-seq data, consensus cell type annotations, and copy number estimates from 50+ pediatric cancer types. Register: events.cancer.gov/ccdi/webin…
Our Director, Jaclyn Taroni, is giving two talks on the Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas (ScPCA) this month, each for a different audience. 🧵
📢 Have single-cell or spatial txomics data from pediatric tumors or model systems? We'd love to help you share it on the Portal.
Contribute your dataset, make it openly available, and you may be eligible for a small grant for childhood cancer research.
scpca.alexslemonade.org/cont…
What's on the Portal:
🔬 700 samples across 55 pediatric cancer types
🧬 Single-cell, single-nuclei, bulk RNA-seq, spatial & CITE-seq
📦 Download-ready SingleCellExperiment & AnnData objects (raw + normalized counts, PCA/UMAP, automated cell type annotations)
Our paper on the Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas (ScPCA) Portal is out now in @CellGenomics 🎉
ScPCA is a free resource of uniformly processed single-cell & single-nuclei RNA-seq data from pediatric tumors and model systems.
📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2026.…
We had a great time being part of #AACR26 — sharing resources like our Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas Portal, meeting @AlexsLemonade grant recipients, and learning about the latest advancements in cancer research.
Learn more about the Data Lab: ccdatalab.org
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Dr. Kelly Bailey from the Mayo Clinic with Ally Hawkins, PhD from the ALSF Data Lab at AACR 2026!
We’re proud to collaborate with Dr. Bailey’s team on the Sean Karl cohort, working to better understand therapeutic vulnerabilities in Ewing sarcoma.
Our team has contributed by developing a reproducible workflow to generate a harmonized dataset for consistent analyses, which will be released and openly licensed for others’ use. The generated data will be shared on the Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas (ScPCA) Portal.
Come meet Dr. Hawkins at our poster today to learn more about the ScPCA Portal!
Poster: Improving the utility of the Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas through updated cell type annotations, CNV inference, and visualization tools
📅 Today! April 20 | 2-5 PM
📍 Section 31 | Board 13
Meet the Data Lab at #AACR26! 🎉
Stop by Booth 2918 to meet our team and explore resources to accelerate new treatment and cure discovery for pediatric cancer.
We're excited to join the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI) webinar series! 🎉
Our director, Dr. Jaclyn N. Taroni, will give a lightning talk on the Open #SingleCell #PediatricCancer Atlas project.
🗓 Tomorrow! April 7 | 10:30 AM–12 PM
events.cancer.gov/ccdi/webin…