OCC team showcases The Chicagoland COVID-19 Commons at SuperCompute 2021 at St Louis, MI.

OCC team demonstrated about how we manage and operate cloud computing and data commons infrastructure to support research.

OCC showcased various services and contributions such as :

• Our Governance and cloud optimization services

• How we Build and Manage different Gen3 Data Commons and Data Ecosystems

• BloodPAC Commons: White House Cancer Moonshot’s goal of sharing data publicly after 5 years using Gen3 Discovery Portal

• Managing and Reducing cost of Workspaces using Gen3

• How we contribute to Advancing Scientific Research and Social Impact

AWS awarded OCC with a grant

AWS Diagnostic Development Initiative awards OCC with a grant to develop The Biomedical Research Hub: a federated platform for patient research data

The AWS Diagnostic Development Initiative will support projects that are using AWS to support research-oriented workloads across four program areas: early disease detection, diagnostics, prognosis, and public health genomics. OCC had applied for a grant to work with the AWS Diagnostic Development Initiative team to develop and operate a cloud-based federated system for managing, analyzing, and sharing patient data for research purposes while allowing each resource sharing patient data to operate their component based on their own governance rules.

UChicago CTDS Gen3 Webinars

Our partners at UChicago CTDS have launched a monthly webinar series to better explain the amazing work they are doing with Gen3. Gen3 is an open source platform for developing data commons. A data commons is a cloud-based software platform for managing, analyzing, harmonizing and sharing large datasets. Data commons accelerate and democratize the process of scientific discovery, especially over large or complex datasets.

Federal agencies, not-for-profits, and consortiums with members spanning the globe use Gen3 and its framework services to support their research communities, access and index their data, and facilitate scientific discoveries that impact the world.

The next webinar will take place Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 at 1:00pm CDT and will cover technical details of the services that Data Commons Framework created such as Authentication, Authorization and Indexing with Fence & IndexD. Click here to register!

OCC at the 2019 AMS Annual Meeting

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Zac Flamig, Director of Environmental Science, at the Center for Translational Data Science at the University of Chicago and scientific lead for the OCC’s NOAA Big Data Project is participating in the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

On Wednesday, January 9, he will be sitting on a panel discussion about NOAA’s Big Data Project (BDP). The project is in its fourth year; the panel will be discussing how the project has engaged with the user community and CRADA partners to develop new pathways and applications to serve up NOAA's observations and model outputs through public cloud services.  In this town hall, presenters will provide an update on the progress of the NOAA BDP efforts, including impact on research and applications, lessons learned, and plans for the future

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Open Commons Consortium at SC18

We're pleased to announce our presence at the 2018 annual Super Computing conference. This year's conference will be in Dallas, Texas. The OCC and the Center for Data Intensive Science are attending and will showcase:

• innovative applications of data science in biology, medicine, health care, and the environment;

• new releases of data commons and data peering technology that support research communities, including specialized commons for cancer genomic data, liquid biopsy research, brain disorders, weather data, and satellite imagery;

• data intensive computing systems;

• high performance analytics

If you're in Dallas and attending the conference, please stop by booth #3242, ask for a demonstration, and learn more about how we've been making data intensive research easier and more accessible. We'll be giving away OCC first-aid kits, CDIS hot cold packs, and new Gen3 stickers. Get yours while they last!

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National Water Model 25 Year Retrospective Simulation now available

Now available on the Environmental Data Commons is the National Water Model 25 Year retrospective simulation v1.2 (Jan 1, 1993 - Dec 31, 2017). It contains:

• A reanalysis rather than a reforecast (forcing different than real-time runs)

• Output fields are fewer and less frequent than real-time to conserve space

• Provides historical context to current conditions

• Can be used to infer flow frequencies and perform temporal analyses

• 584,384 objects, 21.7 Tb in size, with hourly streamflow output and 3-hourly land surface output

The OCC Environmental Data Commons is a repository for environmental public data sets of scientific interest, hosted as part of the Open Science Data Cloud Ecosystem.

BloodPAC Releases its First Public Accessible Dataset

We are thrilled to announce that the Blood Profiling Atlas in Cancer Consortium (BloodPAC) has released an initial public accessible dataset. This public pre-analytical minimal technical data elements (MTDEs) dataset summarizes the initial submission of BloodPAC members' projects and aims to facilitate cross analysis and improve the usability of the BloodPAC commons for liquid biopsy research.

The BloodPAC Data Commons is operated in partnership with the Center for Data Intensive Science (CDIS) at the University of Chicago. “To truly accelerate the development of liquid biopsy for patient benefit, we can’t afford to duplicate efforts. Part of the power of the BloodPAC Data Commons is that it is based on the data sharing principles of the Open Commons Consortium (OCC) and shares the same APIs as the NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC), so that applications and tools can easily analyze data from both commons,” said Dr. Robert Grossman, founder and director of OCC . “That allows the research community to build on and amplify the power of accumulated data.”

The MTDE dataset can be accessed here, it can be downloaded as a zip file containing csv files that representing each MTDE count. There is also a data browser accompanying where one can review tables and visualizations of each data field.

Visit the BloodPAC page to learn more. Find the full press release here.

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OCC at the 98th AMS Annual Meeting

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Zac Flamig, a postdoc at the Center for Data Intensive Science at the University of Chicago and scientific lead for the OCC NOAA Big Data Project is participating in a number of events at the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Highlights include:

• Tue, 1.09:  Software Engineering and Cyberinfrastructure: Containing the Future

• Tue, 1.09:  Side Panels: Unlocking the Value of Satellite Observations for the Public through Cloud-Based Access

• Wed, 1.10: Panel Discussion of NOAA Big Data Project- Updates

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GOES-16 is now operational at GOES-East

We are very pleased that the GOES-16 satellite is now in operational orbit in its eastern location.

“The GOES-16 is now at the GOES-East location and has officially joined NOAA’s operational observation network, providing forecasters with sharper, more defined images of severe storms, hurricanes, wildfires and other weather hazards in near real-time 24/7.”

To read the complete news release, visit NOAA.

Recently, Nathaniel Lash and Neil Bedi leveraged the GOES-16 data and tools hosted by the OCC in a data driven journalism piece on Hurricane Irma featured in the Tampa Bay Times. Learn more about using the GOES-16 data and community tools on the Environmental Data Commons website.

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To read the complete news release, visit NOAA.

Recently, Nathaniel Lash and Neil Bedi leveraged the GOES-16 data and tools hosted by the OCC in a data driven journalism piece on Hurricane Irma featured in the Tampa Bay Times. Learn more about using the GOES-16 data and community tools on the Environmental Data Commons website.

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Open Commons Consortium at SC17

We're pleased to announce our presence at the annual Super Computing conference. This year's conference will be in Denver, Colorado and the OCC and the Center for Data Intensive Science will showcase:

• innovative applications of data science in biology, medicine, health care, and the environment;

• new releases of data commons and data peering technology that support research communities, including specialized commons for cancer genomic data, liquid biopsy research, brain disorders, weather data, and satellite imagery;

• data intensive computing systems;

• high performance analytics;

• and a Thursday Birds-of-a-Feather session on Data Commons led by Dr. Robert Grossman in room 405-406-407.

If you're in Denver and attending the conference, please stop by booth #1653, ask for a demonstration, and learn more about how we've been making data intensive research easier and more accessible. We'll be giving away free gourmet coffee, CDIS wine stoppers, and OCC first-aid kits. Get yours while they last!

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