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NCBCs Take Stock and Look Forward: Fruitful Centers Face Sunset

From hardened software to scientific productivity, the NCBCs have changed the landscape for biomedical computing.  What will happen when their funding expires?

It has been eight years since the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded the first National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBCs). With two or three years remaining in the program (...
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Oct, 19, 2012
Fulfilling the Promise of the NIH Roadmap Through National Engagement by the National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBC) and the CTSA Informatics
For major team-based Roadmap initiatives, National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials expect grantees to look beyond the focus of their individual projects to build bridges not only among funded...
Sep, 30, 2008
Journey to the NIH: Insights and Inspirations from the 2012 NCBC Showcase

Postdocs get a glance at the entire field and their first inside view of NIH grant-making

If he were a graduate student now, Francis Collins would be studying computational biology. That’s what the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) told a rapt audience at the...
Feb, 19, 2013
NCBC Update: Shedding New Light on Biological Complexity
After four years, the seven National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBC's) - established largely to build a national biocomputing infrastucture - have, as one might expect, produced an...
Dec, 31, 2008
The Missing Link: A Sustainability Plan
As the NIH National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBC) program enters its final years of support, there is an opportunity to reflect on how this program has made a lasting impact on the research...
Oct, 31, 2013
Big (Data) Science Matters

Big Data Science is transforming the biomedical research landscape

In 1967, when nuclear physicist Alvin Weinberg1 coined the term Big Science, he was most interested in launching a concentrated effort to develop nuclear technologies. But he anticipated that large-...
Jun, 12, 2017
Infrastructure and Workforce Needs in Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology
In science, there is a need to balance research in domain sciences and the infrastructure to support that research. Basic research mediated through peer review is understood to produce useful...
Dec, 31, 2006
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