NIH BD2K Updates

Posted by Patricia Devine on August 3rd, 2016 Posted in: Data Science, News from NIH

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Big Data to Knowledge, or BD2K, is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Initiative to establish biomedical research as a digital enterprise, to support new knowledge and to maximize community engagement. Check the BD2K homepage for more information, and here is some recent news:

BD2K News:

• Phil Bourne was interviewed by DNAdigest, an online genomics research journal on July 25.  The interview is published on their blog page: http://dnadigest.org/dnadigest-interviews-phil-bourne-bd2k/

• ENIGMA planning meeting, June 24-25, included a co-meeting with the IMAGEN investigators. See detailed agenda with updates and summaries here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mxZMDDQmQNGkSy9E_pqbVP95xQbizf63CWCdyo55yGA.
• NIH Connectome Celebration, HCP-users Lecture, June 20, includes an up-to-date ENIGMA summary. Watch the videocast here (it starts 3 hours 36 minutes into webcast):  https://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?File=19759&bhcp=1
• ENIGMA All-Hands Meeting, June 13, a total of 54 abstracts were presented and are now publicly available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByEecnS3A-i1MTNISnFmbVBta2c/view
  

BD2K Events:

• “Save the Date” 2016 All Hands Meeting & Science Symposium, November 29-December 1, 2016 (TBD) Washington, DC Metro Area. Details Forthcoming. For more information please visit https://datascience.nih.gov/bd2k/AHM2016

PLEASE NOTE the All Hands Meetings (November 29 -30) will be opened to BD2K Grantees and NIH/HHS staff ONLY. The Science Symposium (December 1st) will be opened to the public.

Data Science Opportunities:

• National Institutes of Health (NIH) opens opportunity for organizations to become conformant providers as part of the cloud credits model. For details, see @FedBizOpps fedbizopps.gov https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=b45f1d0703f3da22dae26291ec45e5a5&tab=core&_cview=0
• The BD2K Training Coordination Center introduces Data Science Rotation for Advancing Discovery Trip (RoAD-Trip). A program for rotations into Data Science Labs. Applications are due September 2, 2016. For more information please visit: http://www.bigdatau.org/roadtrip
• Joint NSF/NIH solicitation on Quantitative Approaches to Biomedical Big Data (QuBBD). Full Proposals are due September 28, 2016. For more information, please visit: http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505292 or https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-EB-16-008.html