Gen3 - Webinars

Gen3 Webinars

The Gen3 webinars are focused on helping the community understand what Gen3 does, what the Data Commons Framework Services (DCFS) are, and how both can be used to aid in the construction and operation of data commons.

Upcoming Webinars

Previous Webinars

August 15, 2022

NCI DCFS Metadata API

As a part of becoming compliant with FAIR2-FAIR4, Gen3 has deployed metadata services and the metadata API to facilitate the process. Join us as we discuss DCF Framework services and the Gen3 Metadata API.

August 24th, 2020

NCI DCFS Quality Assurance Processes

As part of building Framework Services, we want to provide reliable and scalable solutions to our users. Join our quality assurance team to discuss what is involved before a code or data release to ensure that DCFS provides a reliable, scalable and secure way to access both open and controlled datasets.

June 9th, 2020

NCI DCFS Interoperability with Framework Services

Join us as we discuss Framework Services and how it enables interoperability across ecosystems. During this webinar we'll dive into the technical details of Gen3’s open-source implementation of Framework Services, including AuthN/AuthZ and standards such as GA4GH's Data Repository Service (DRS).

August 8th, 2019

Gen3 Data Exploration

Join us as we walk through Gen3’s services and demonstrate how researchers can bring data into Gen3 and get access to a data ecosystem with open-source tools to drive scientific discovery. During this webinar we will demonstrate how to explore and analyze cancer cell line data in Gen3.

June 13th, 2019

Data Science with Gen3 - Using Jupyter Notebooks

Join us as we walk through Gen3’s services and demonstrate how researchers can bring data into Gen3 and get access to a data ecosystem with open-source tools to drive scientific discovery. During this webinar we will dive into the details of data science with Gen3 and how Jupyter Notebooks work with Gen3.

May 9th, 2019

Gen3 Data Modeling - Herding Data Submissions & Hunting Down Data (Sheepdog & Peregrine)

This webinar will cover the creation of data models, and data dictionaries in Gen3.

Mar. 13th, 2019

DCF Services Webinar - Authentication, Authorization and Data Access

During this webinar we will dive into technical details of the services that Data Commons Framework created such as Authentication, Authorization and Indexing with Fence & Indexd.

Feb. 14th, 2019

Introduction to Gen3

We will introduce attendees to the Gen3 platform and data commons more broadly. Join us as we walk through Gen3’s components and demonstrate how researchers can bring data into Gen3 and use our suite of open-source tools to drive scientific discovery.