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Nov
14
NCBI has announced the second installment of the SoCal Bioinformatics Hackathon, on January 9-11, 2019, hosted by the Computational Sciences Research Center at San Diego State University (SDSU)! Anyone interested in participating should have experience in computational virus hunting or adjacent fields to identify known, taxonomically-definable and novel viruses from a few hundred thousand metagenomic… Read More »
Posted in: Announcements, Data, Events
Nov
13
A Blue Ribbon Panel established to review the intramural research program of the National Library of Medicine has issued its report (PDF). The Panel was chaired by Russ Altman, MD, PhD, from Stanford University, and included eight additional leading experts with a broad knowledge of biomedical informatics, computational biology, and data science. The report highlights the… Read More »
Posted in: Announcements, Communications Tools, Data, Informatics, NLM Resources
Nov
07
Donald West King, MD, who served as Deputy Director for Research and Education for the National Library of Medicine from 2002 to 2008, died from complications of cancer on October 21, 2018. An ambassador and advocate for NLM’s information products and services, Dr. King created opportunities to highlight NLM’s mission and achievements, and he nurtured… Read More »
Posted in: Announcements, General, Informatics
Nov
02
NLM Director Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, has announced the appointment of Olivier Bodenreider, MD, PhD, as Acting Director of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC), effective November 1, 2018. Dr. Bodenreider currently serves as Chief of the Cognitive Science Branch and the Acting Chief of the High-Performance Computing and Communications Branch… Read More »
Posted in: Announcements, Communications Tools, Electronic Health Records, General, Informatics
Nov
02
Check out the November issue of NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter bringing you practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research. In this issue: Nurturing Healthy Neighborhoods: Communities Affect Health NIH-funded researchers are looking at how the environment around us, from how many trees we can see to how far… Read More »
Posted in: Consumer Health, NLM Resources, Public Health
