Our paper on the Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas (ScPCA) Portal is out now in Cell Genomics 🎉 ScPCA is a resource of uniformly processed single-cell & single-nuclei RNA-seq data from pediatric tumors and model systems. 📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.xg...

We had a great time being part of #AACR26 — sharing resources like our Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas (ScPCA) Portal, meeting ALSF grant recipients, and learning about the latest advancements in cancer research. Stay connected with the Data Lab at ccdatalab.org!

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 gearing up for the 2026 #AACR Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA! 🎉 Find us in the exhibit hall at booth 2918 from April 19-22! Learn about ALSF grant opportunities, resources for #PediatricCancer research, and apply to free data science training workshops. We hope to see you at AACR!

Meet Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation at AACR 2026: Accelerate Your Pediatric Cancer Research

Are you attending the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA? Visit us in the exhibit hall at booth 2918 from April 19-22, 2026, and during poster sessions. Me...

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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 Data Lab’s Open #SingleCell #PediatricCancer Atlas project. 🗓 Tomorrow! April 7 | 10:30 AM–12 PM Register for upcoming CCDI webinars 👇

📄 Paper of the month! During our team’s monthly Journal Club, we’re exploring this paper on differential expression analysis in single-cell RNA-Seq. We’re particularly interested in approaches that could inform our research and help shape future training workshops.

NEBULA is a fast negative binomial mixed model for differential or co-expression analysis of large-scale multi-subject single-cell data - Communications Biology

The application of negative binomial mixed models (NBMMs) to single-cell data is computationally demanding. To address this issue, Liang He et al. have developed NEBULA, an efficient algorithm that ca...

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Are you attending #ENAR2026 in Indianapolis next week? Don’t miss the Data Lab’s presentation on machine learning in pediatric cancer research, presented by our director Dr. Jaclyn N. Taroni, on March 16! #MachineLearning #PediatricCancer

Applications are open! We’re excited to announce two opportunities for pediatric cancer researchers to build their skills in single-cell RNA-Seq data analysis. Learn more and apply to our upcoming single-cell workshops. 🧵

Collaborate with us! 🧑‍🔬👩‍💻 Did you know the Data Lab can support your data-intensive research projects? Our science team specializes in working with large datasets from designing pipelines to ensuring reproducible analysis. Learn more! ccdatalab.org/scientific-collaboration

Exciting news from the #SingleCell #PediatricCancer Atlas (ScPCA) Portal! We’ve rolled out a suite of new features to help you extract deeper insights from your ScPCA datasets. Read our blog to see how these updates can help you save time and work more efficiently.

New Feature Release: Cell Type Annotations, CNV Inference, Custom Downloads, and More on the ScPCA Portal

Exciting news from the Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas (ScPCA) Portal! All datasets on the portal have been updated to include several new features that enhance data quality and usability. Here’s a...

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🎉 As we wrap up the year, we’re excited to share new updates to the #SingleCell #PediatricCancer Atlas (ScPCA) Portal! All datasets have been updated with features that improve data quality and usability. Here’s what’s new! 🧵

📣 New blog post! Starting a new scientific research project? Make life easier for your future self! Check out this guide from Data Lab on organizing your code, files, and workflows so your research stays reproducible. #ReproducibleResearch #OpenScience

Help You Help Future You: Organizing your research projects reproducibly

It's that time of year again – it's time to start a new research project! Planning for the research itself can be daunting, but planning for your work to be fully reproducible is a whole other layer t...

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Applications are still open! Expand your data analysis skills during our Advanced Single-Cell RNA-seq Workshop for pediatric cancer researchers. 📆 December 8-12, 2025 💻 Virtual ⬇️ Learn more and apply! #PediatricCancer #SingleCell #RNASeq

Data Lab Advanced Single-Cell RNA-Seq Workshop, Virtual, December 8-12, 2025

Applications are open for the Data Lab's upcoming workshop, which will cover advanced topics in the analysis of single-cell RNA-seq data for researchers studying pediatric cancer. The course will be h...

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📣 Applications are open for our final workshop of the year! If you're a #PediatricCancer researcher looking to build on your foundational skills in #SingleCell #RNASeq analysis, this workshop may be for you. 🎓 Topic: Advanced Single-cell RNA-Seq 📅 Date/Time: December 8-12, 2025 📍 Virtual

Attending the NCI Office of Data Sharing Annual Symposium? Stop by our table during poster/demo sessions for a live look at the Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas Portal (scpca.alexslemonade.org). 📆 September 30 (today!) & October 1 📍 Poster/demo sessions #SingleCell #PediatricCancer #DataSharing

Connect with our team at the #AACR Special Conference: Discovery and Innovation in #PediatricCancer! Dr. Ally Hawkins will be presenting our work on a collaboration aimed at uncovering therapeutic vulnerabilities in #EwingSarcoma. 🗓️ Tonight (9/25) | 7-9:30PM 📍 Poster Session A

Are you attending the #AACR Special Conference: Discovery and Innovation in #PediatricCancer? Stop by our poster to learn how we're collaborating with other labs to tackle their complex data challenges! 🧵

September is #ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth, a time to recognize the urgent need for better treatments and outcomes for kids with cancer. In our latest blog, we’re highlighting a few researchers who have drawn on the Data Lab’s resources in their remarkable efforts to accelerate new cure discovery!

Pediatric Cancer Researchers Driving Progress Through Data, Training, and Collaboration

At the Childhood Cancer Data Lab, we support pediatric cancer researchers by providing data science training, collaborating on data-intensive projects, and designing open-source tools. Through this wo...

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This fall, the Data Lab is hitting the road to present some of our tools and projects during these exciting events. Here’s where you can find us! 🧵

What can #PediatricCancer researchers expect from a Data Lab workshop? ✅ Interactive, hands-on training ✅ Instructors who take the time to understand your research goals ✅ Ongoing support with opportunities for 1:1 consultation, even after the workshop ends!

Our #ReproducibleResearch Practices workshop teaches tools and techniques to help #PediatricCancer researchers work more efficiently, collaboratively, and reproducibly. The next course is taking place November 6–7, 2025, in Philadelphia, PA. 🧵

Here’s what you’ll get with each dataset you download from the #SingleCell #PediatricCancer Atlas (ScPCA) Portal…for free! -Unfiltered, filtered & processed counts -QC report -Associated metadata -Reliable cell type annotations

📣 Join the Open #SingleCell #PediatricCancer Atlas (OpenScPCA) project. Grants are available! We aim to annotate cell types for 19 projects on the ScPCA Portal. Explore the grant table to see which cancer types need your insight: github.com/AlexsLemonade/OpenScPCA-analysis/discussions/1062.

We’ve made exciting updates to the #SingleCell #PediatricCancer Atlas (ScPCA) Portal, making the available data even more robust, reliable, and useful for the research community! 🧵

Thank you to everyone who joined us to learn advanced topics in #SingleCell #RNAseq analysis this week. We look forward to hosting more researchers at our workshops this year.

We teamed up with the Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative at @ucscgenomics.bsky.social to deliver a custom workshop on reproducible research. In our new blog, Dr. Holly Beale, Lead Computational Biologist at Treehouse, shares how their team is putting new skills into practice. Read the full story!

Building Reproducible Research Skills: A Training Workshop with the Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative

The Data Lab recently traveled to California to lead a hands-on workshop for nine researchers from the UC Santa Cruz Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative. The participants, all from a range of backgr...

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Design and engineering teams utilize use cases to build a shared understanding of what a product does and how users might interact with it. In our latest blog post, our #UX Designer details the unique way we apply use cases to guide smarter design decisions—right from the start of a project!

Use cases as a brainstorming tool

‍Use cases define how users interact with a product or system, including actions users can take and how the system responds. It also identifies user goals and paths for the system to handle errors.

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The Data Lab is exploring new topics to expand our training program! We invite #PediatricCancer researchers who work with high-dimensional data to take a 10-min survey that will help shape future learning opportunities for the community. 🚀 Take our survey! forms.gle/J9YztY4r5BQ1ch66A

Training Topics Survey

In 2018, the ALSF Childhood Cancer Data Lab launched a training program to teach pediatric cancer researchers the data science skills they need to better analyze their own data. We have trained nearly...

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Consensus cell types are now available on the #SingleCell #PediatricCancer Atlas (ScPCA) Portal! 🧵

🚨 Attention #SingleCell #PediatricCancer Atlas (ScPCA) Portal users! The Portal (scpca.alexslemonade.org) will be temporarily unavailable during scheduled updates starting May 7 at 7 PM EST. Stay tuned! We’ve got exciting ScPCA news to share once we're back online.