The FAIR Data-Sharing Movement: BD2K Centers Make Headway

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
BD2K Centers: The Basics

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
BD2K Centers’ Pan-NIH Impact

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
FOLLOW THE MONEY: Big Grants in Biomedical Computing

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...
brain, immunity, network
Apr, 01, 2011
Three New Centers
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
2012 Update on the National Centers for Biomedical Computing

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...
NCBC
Feb, 29, 2012
NIH Launches a United Ecosystem for Big Data

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...
Big data, NIH funding
Jan, 08, 2015
CAMPAIGN: Expanding the Universe for Clustering Algorithms

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...
Apr, 01, 2011
Big Data and Drugs: BD2K Centers Solidify Emerging Approaches

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
Skills Upgrades

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