Exabytes of data.
Community-scale Science.
AI- and Data-driven Research.
The U.S. National Science Foundation National Synthesis Center for Emergence in the Molecular and Cellular Sciences (NCEMS) is catalyzing multidisciplinary scientific teams to leverage AI and data science to synthesize a myriad of publicly available data to answer the most fundamental questions in molecular and cellular biology, stimulating novel questions, answering long-standing mysteries, recruiting the best talent, and training the next-generation workforce of data savvy scientist, all while following gold standard science practices.
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News
Open call for full Working Group Proposals!
The National Synthesis Center for Emergence in the Molecular and Cellular Sciences (NCEMS) is now accepting proposals for its Year 3 Working Groups. Researchers are invited to submit collaborative, synthesis-driven proposals that bring together diverse expertise, existing data, and computational approaches to address important questions in the molecular and cellular
Four researchers win data harmonization competition
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) National Synthesis Center for Emergence in the Molecular and Cellular Sciences (NCEMS) at Penn State has awarded four researchers — two individuals and one team of two — from around the world for their work in building machine learning-based approaches to streamlining publicly available
Staff Scientist Positions in Bioinformatics, Applied Statistics, and Machine Learning at NSF-NCEMS (Penn State)
The U.S. National Science Foundation National Synthesis Center for Emergence in the Molecular and Cellular Sciences (NCEMS), in partnership with the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) at Penn State, is recruiting for three Staff Scientist positions in bioinformatics, applied statistics, and machine learning to support the Center.
Annual Summit
Fall 2027 (Exact Date TBA)
The fourth NCEMS Annual Summit will be announced! This event will bring together participants from around the world, including faculty, postdocs, graduate students, collaborative partner members, and representatives of data repositories. Together, we worked to identify the most pressing research challenges and opportunities for synthesis science over the next decade and helped set the research agenda for NCEMS moving forward.
If you would like to propose a focus area or think that you would be a great addition to the next Summit, please reach out to ncems@psu.edu — we’re excited to continue building the future of synthesis science with you!
Our Science
NCEMS accelerates discoveries in molecular and cellular sciences, combining the latest data science and computational methods, the most relevant publicly available data, with scientists from diverse disciplines.
Participate
Join a community driven to collaborate, ask novel questions, and impact the fields of molecular and cellular sciences through community-scale synthesis.
Events
From our annual summit meeting to education and training events, to hack-a-thons and bootcamps, building community is a core component of our mission.