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DataScience@NIH Updates DataScience@NIH News: The NIH Big Data to Knowledge program released Research Opportunity Announcement RM-17-026 to support a portion of the NIH Data Commons Pilot Phase Consortium (DCPPC). The purpose of this announcement is to invite applications from applicants who have an interest in performing high impact, cutting-edge scientific and computing activities necessary to establish an NIH Data Commons. The goal of the NIH Data Commons is to accelerate new biomedical discoveries by providing a cloud-based platform where investigators can store, share, access, and compute on digital objects (data, software, etc.) generated from biomedical research and perform novel scientific research including hypothesis generation, discovery, and validation. Applicants are encouraged to develop innovative approaches to one or more key computational, data, analytical and scientific capabilities of the Data Commons. These key capabilities are described in detail in the announcement.
Registration is open for the California Big Data to Knowledge Workshop September 15, 2017. Register or learn more about the workshop: http://bd2k.ini.usc.edu/ Conference organizers have extended the deadline for submissions for the CODATA 2017 Global Challenges and Data-Driven Science, 8-13 October 2017, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, to 28 July 2017. In line with this, the deadline for 'early-bird' registration has been also extended to 28 July 2017. To submit a proposal for a session or a paper at CODATA 2017, go to http://conference.codata.org/ CODATA 2017 is running simultaneous proposals for sessions and papers. The deadline for both types of proposals is now 28 July 2017. Please consult the information on submission procedures at http://conference.codata.org/ Papers may be proposed either 1) in relation to simultaneous proposal for a session; or, 2) independently of a session proposal to be assigned to an appropriate thematic session by the organizers. The purpose of the CODATA 2017 Conference is to explore the fundamental issues relating to the availability, (re-)use and scientific analysis of data that relate to the most significant contemporary global challenges. The priority themes of CODATA 2017 can be found at: http://conference.codata. To register to attend the conference and for information about travel, logistics and accommodation go to http://codata2017.gcras.ru/ Data Science Opportunities: NCBI's Virus Variation resource makes it easy to find genome and protein sequences for a number of viruses – no more stumbling through multiple synonyms to find what you need. Now you can search using standardized biological criteria and intuitive pull-down menus. Virus Variation has modules for seven viral groups: influenza virus, Dengue virus, West Nile virus, Ebolavirus, MERS coronavirus, Rotavirus A, and Zika virus. These modules now include a variety of new enhancements, including standardized search criteria. For a full list of updates, see the latest story on NCBI Insights: https://go.usa.gov/ Become a mentor in the NIH Friday Afternoon Data Science Mentorship Program! Skills in Data Science are intrinsically necessary in many areas of biomedical research. While didactic training opportunities exist, there is a growing interest in direct, one-on-one mentorship and training. We expect the program to create a community of mentors and trainees who can network and help each other with their projects.
Center for Open Science Preregistration Challenge: Preregistration adds credibility to research results by documenting in advance what will be tested. If you have a project that is entering the data collection phase, the COS is giving away $1,000 to 1,000 researchers who pre-register before they publish. For additional information, visit: https://cos.io/prereg/? Call for submissions for a special issue on "Open Research Data Resources" for Scientific Data, for articles describing novel data resources or significant and recent extensions to existing data repositories. Organizers include: Patricia Cruse (Executive Director, DataCite); Michael Huerta (NLM Coordinator of Data & Open Science Initiatives, NIH), Mike Thorley (Head of Science Information, NERC); and Susanna-Assunta Sansone (Associate Director, University of Oxford e-Research Centre).
RFA-NS-17-018 "BRAIN Initiative: Team-Research BRAIN Circuit Programs - TeamBCP (U19)." This program will support integrated, interdisciplinary collaborative research teams from prior BRAIN technology and/or integrated approaches teams, and/or new projects from the research community that focus on examining circuit functions related to behavior, using advanced and innovative technologies. Applications due October 17, 2017. The bioCADDIE DDICC Core Team is pleased to announce the release of DataMed v2.0! DataMed is designed to be for data what PubMed has been for scientific literature. This version of the Data Discovery Index (DDI) prototype includes many additional datasets and reflects considerable user/stakeholder input. The user interface has also been updated to reflect this input.
The BD2K Training Coordinating Center has been creating and populating the Educational Resource Discovery Index (ERuDIte), a database of 10,000+ data science educational resources from collective BD2K activities and from around the web.
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has launched the beta version of their new ClinicalTrials.gov website and it is now available for user testing.
Data Science Events: BD2K-LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center MOOC on Coursera Big Data Science with the BD2K-LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center This course covers various methods of analysis including: unsupervised clustering, gene-set enrichment analyses, data visualization, and supervised machine learning applications to LINCS data. This course also covers basic data processing and data normalization methods to clean and harmonize LINCS data and other relevant data. Enroll now for the upcoming session starting July 10, 2017! The G-OnRamp Project will hold two beta user workshops on July 25-27, 2017 at Washington University in St. Louis. Participants will use G-OnRamp to create genome browsers for collaborative annotations of eukaryotic genomes. G-OnRamp uses Galaxy workflows to construct evidence tracks (e.g., protein sequence similarity, gene predictions, RNA-Seq, repeats) and display the results on the UCSC Genome Browser or JBrowse. Educators can use G-OnRamp for hands-on learning in data-intensive biology; researchers can use G-OnRamp for best-practice annotation of novel genomes. To Register: http://gonramp.org/ Registration is now open for the second annual ISCB DC area regional student group (DC-RSG) summer workshop on bioinformatics, computational biology and genomics! The meeting will take place in the physics building (PHY) at the University of Maryland, College Park campus on July 12, 2017. The goal of the meeting is to bring together researchers from different institutions around the region to share ideas and learn from one another, and to foster collaborations across organizations. Registration is FREE and includes lunch. Registration: http:// For more information about the meeting, including detailed schedule information, check out the meeting website at: https://iscb-dc-rsg. On behalf of the NIH Citizen Science Symposium Planning Committee, you are invited to attend the NIH symposium, "Engaging Citizen Scientists to Advance Biomedical Research" to be held at the Natcher Conference Center (Room E1/E2) on Friday, July 14 from 10:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Our intent is to engage the NIH community in a symposium on the successes, barriers, myths and what it's like to run a citizen science or crowdsourcing project. Learn more about how to incorporate open innovation into your research portfolio!
This event is free but registration is required as seating is limited. To register please go to: https://www.eventbrite. This event will be recorded for archival purposes only and will not be videocast. This symposium is intended only for NIH employees, fellows, and contractors. Individuals with disabilities who need Sign Language Interpreters and/or reasonable accommodation to participate in this event should contact Katrina Theisz (katrina.theisz@nih.gov, 240-276-7606) and/or the Federal Relay (1-800-877-8339) a minimum of two business days prior to the event. The BD2K-supported Mobilize Center has organized a symposium on "Data Science in Biomechanics" at the 26th Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB) taking place July 23-27, 2017 in Brisbane, Australia. The symposium will highlight current applications of data science methods in biomechanics research, foster discussions of the challenges and opportunities with biomechanics data, and promote the sharing of data and knowledge within the community. OpenSim will hold a thematic session at the 26th Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB) in Brisbane, Australia, July 2017. The goal of this session is to highlight the diversity of research being conducted with OpenSim. Speakers will discuss new methods for generating accurate simulations of movement and applications of the software to areas such as rehabilitation and the design of robotic assistive devices. Learn more about the session. Register for the 5th RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Computational Methods in Genetics (RECOMB-Genetics), July 27-28, 2017, and the 6th RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Computational Cancer Biology (RECOMB-CCB), July 28-29, 2017, University of California Los Angeles. To register, visit: https://commerce. Force 11 Scholarly Communications Institute, July 31 - August 4, 2017, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA. For more information or to register, visit: http://mailchi.mp/ NINR 2017 Precision Health Boot Camp, "Precision Health: From 'Omics' to Data Science, August 7-11, 2017on the NIH Main Campus in Bethesda, MD. This free, one-week intensive research training course covers the latest advances in genomics, pharmacogenomics, nutrigenomics, metabolomics, microbiomics, and data science as well as the associated ethical, legal and social implications of precision health. The course is provided by NINR at no cost. Registration is now closed. To join the waitlist, visit: http://www.ninr.nih. The BD2K Center for Predictive Computational Phenotyping (CPCP) will co-sponsor a Big Data Analytics-as-a-Service workshop. The first workshop on Big data analytics-as-a-Service: Archit DCH2017 International Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage, August 30, 2017 – September 1, 2017, in Berlin. Organized by CODATA-Germany, the German National Committee for CODATA, Committee on Data for Science and Technology of the International Council for Science (ICSU). Registration is now open: http://DCH2017.net. The Principle Investigator of the BD2K ENIGMA Consortium, Dr. Paul Thompson, will present the Keynote Lecture at the Cognomics Conference, September 7-8, 2017 in Nijmegen, Netherlands. For additional information or to register, visit: https://visitors.cngrs. Submissions: We welcome your input! Submissions must be received prior to 12:00pm noon ET on Thursday to be included in that same week's edition. If you are requesting attendance at an event by Federal employees, it is recommended that you submit your event information a minimum of one month in advance. To submit a news item, contact: Grace.Middleton@nih.gov. ***The delivery of the DataScience@NIH Updates will move to Tuesdays beginning July 11, 2017. Submissions must be received prior to 12:00pm ET on Monday to be included in that same week's edition.*** Follow DataScience@NIH on This service is provided to you at no charge by the Office of Communication and Public Liaison.
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