The BD2K Centers are propelling the data sharing revolution forward at every level of research
Relevant NIH Institutes: NHGRI, NIAID, NIBIB, NLM, NIEHS, NIGMS, as well as all disease-focused Institutes including NCI, NHLBI, NIDDK, and NINDS
Science that isn’t reproducible...
Jun, 21, 2017
The Centers span the nation and the full range of biomedical research
CEDAR
Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval
Mission: To make data submission smarter and faster, so biomedical researchers and analysts can create and use better metadata.
BDTG...
Jun, 21, 2017
Each BD2K Center's tools and research impact multiple NIH Institutes
The data science tools and methods developed by the BD2K Centers—from clustering algorithms to data integration approaches, text mining, and image analysis—are valuable across the entire...
Jun, 21, 2017
Several big-dollar initiatives received NIH funding in late 2010
In the current economic climate, every research dollar counts. Fortunately, when it comes to biomedical computing, not everyone has been left counting change. Several big-dollar initiatives received...
Mar, 31, 2011
The National Institutes of Health Roadmap for Medical Research has recently completed the first stage of an ambitious program to expand the computational infrastructure and software tools needed to...
Jan, 01, 2006
The Principal Investigators weigh in
Ever since the National Institutes of Health (NIH) began funding the National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBCs) just over seven years ago, these powerhouses have been plugging away, building...
Feb, 28, 2012
12 Big Data to Knowledge Centers of Excellence funded
Francis Collins, MD, PhD, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), says he used to feel “data envy” toward the field of physics. In those days, “no one would have...
Jan, 08, 2015
Speedups produced by a C++ library of Clustering Algorithms for Massively Parallel Architectures Including GPU Nodes
GenBank, a repository for storing biological sequences, currently contains some 124 billion base pairs and is doubling in size every 18 months.1 Though not a huge number compared to the billion...
Mar, 31, 2011
From cellular responses to drugs, to adverse effects and drug repositioning, systems pharmacology gets the BD2K treatment
Relevant NIH Institutes:NCI, NHLBI, NIDDK, NINDS and all other disease-focused Institutes
The Big Data era in biomedicine offers a grand promise: that by crunching vast quantities of multi-...
Jun, 13, 2017
BD2K Builds Training Resources
The field of biomedical data science is growing so fast that it threatens to leave some researchers behind.
“Some of these big data skills were not needed 5 to 10 years ago, and many...
Oct, 07, 2015
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