Data Science

Last year, some of the world’s top leaders in the field came together to discuss the progress of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in cancer research and clinical care at a scientific symposium hosted by Hood College and Frederick National Laboratory (FNL). It was one of several large scientific gatherings in Frederick in 2022 with…

Abstract Bioinformatics digital data are growing exponentially. They need to be stored, organized, retrieved, visualized, annotated, analyzed, integrated with experimental metadata, integrated with other various datatypes, and archived. These steps require a scientific team that consists of bench scientists, data engineers, bioinformaticians,…

Five new projects led by Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNL) scientists have earned Laboratory Directed Exploratory Research (LDER) funding for the upcoming fiscal year. The LDER program, which was modeled after the U.S. Department of Energy’s Laboratory Directed Research and Development program, provides FNL scientists…

Some of the world’s top scientific leaders in the field will highlight the current progress of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in cancer research and clinical care at a scientific symposium hosted by Hood College in partnership with the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, September 2022. Cancer researchers are…

Seven Columbia University graduate students recently completed drug discovery projects at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNL) as part of their fall 2021 semester. Since 2020, 40 Columbia University students have completed projects with the FNL for their master’s degree coursework. The projects represent a partnership…

A key to understanding KRAS-driven cancers and the role of mutant RAS proteins and to discover new therapeutic possibilities is to better understand how RAS behaves on the cell membrane. Investigating RAS in the context of membranes is somewhat challenging using conventional computational or experimental techniques. In a partnership with…

Six graduate students from Butler University and Nova Southeastern University completed a virtual 10-week summer training program with the Accelerating Opportunities for Therapeutics in Medicine (ATOM) Consortium at the end of July. Their efforts are the latest part of ATOM’s mission to put accelerated, computer-based pharmaceutical discovery in…

Meta tags are used on web pages. Metadata is added to photographs. Both help people find, use, and reuse these digital assets. Scientists say the same is needed for image data in biology, and urgently so. “A single imaging data set could be a thousand images,” said Frederick National Laboratory imaging scientist Kedar Narayan. “Someone might…

Overview Data science pursues a rigorous and systematic process based on the scientific research method, promoting a circular approach that includes: Understanding of the problem Data exploration Data preparation Algorithm selection and model building Model performance evaluation Model deployment Standards,…