Tuesday, July 18, 2017

DataScience@NIH Updates from the NIH Interim Associate Director for Data Science

DataScience@NIH Updates

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DataScience@NIH News:

We are considering ways to better share DataScience@NIH news with you. Please send your feedback on this newsletter via email to grace.middleton@nih.gov. We look forward to your comments and strengthening our outreach efforts.

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.

  • Letters of Intent (LOIs) were required and were due June 30, 2017. Review of LOIs is complete.
  • On July 14th, selected applicants were invited to submit full applications. Only those who receive invitations may apply.
  • Notifications for unselected applicants are expected to go out within the next 1-2 days.

A webinar from BD2K's bioCADDIE on "bioCADDIE: Challenges and Accomplishments, an Overview of our Work" will be presented by Dr. Lucila Ohno-Machado of the University of California, San Diego. The webinar will take place 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on Thursday, August 10th as part of the bioCADDIE webinar series.

Data Science Opportunities:

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.

Data Science Events:

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/caconsortium/2017meeting/.  

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: Architecture, Algorithms, and Applications in Health Informatics is taking place on August 14, 2017 (in conjunction with KDD 2017) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The workshop will consist of a combination of invited keynote speakers, panel discussion, and paper/poster presentations. 

A webinar from the BD2K MD2K Center of Excellence on "Contextualizing Health Behaviors using Spatial Data and Technology: Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges" will be presented by Dr. Marta Jankowska of the University of California, San Diego. The webinar will take place 1 p.m. CT (2 p.m. ET) on Thursday, July 27 as part of the MD2K Webinar Series.

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.

The NIH BD2K program will hold a special track at the Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and the European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB) July 23, 2017. The track will cover the objectives of the BD2K program since its inception in 2014 including facilitating broad use of biomedical digital assets by making them Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). Read the BD2K special track agenda.

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.

Jumping into OpenSim 4.0: Interactive Tutorial at ISB 2017. The OpenSim team from Stanford University and the BD2K Moblilize Center will lead an interactive tutorial on "Building Muscle-Driven" Simuations at the 26th Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB) in Brisbane, Australia, July 23-27, 2017. Learn more about the tutorial.

The Principle Investigator of the BD2K ENIGMA Consortium, Dr. Paul Thompson, will present the Keynote Lecture at the Cognomics Conference being held September 7-8, 2017 in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Registration for this conference is now open.

 

 

 

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