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The Golden Age of Public Databases: Speeding Biomedical Discovery

Public databases impact not only how research is done but what kind of research is done in the first place.

The setting: a scientific conference in January 2008. The speaker, Bruce Ponder, MD, PhD, an oncology professor at Cambridge University, is describing a previously unknown link between a particular...
Sep, 30, 2008
NIH Announcement: Big Data Gets Big Support

The new Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) program signals NIH's faith in computational research

In December, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) approved a new trans-NIH initiative called Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K). With this action, the NIH signals its intention to invest a significant...
Feb, 19, 2013
Update on Biomedical Computation at NIH

Helping newcomers understand the lay of the land

As a program manager in biomedical computing and computational biology at the National Institutes of Health, I field many questions, particularly from new investigators. They ask questions like:...
Mar, 31, 2010
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
Tools to Understand the Federal Research Portfolio: From Ontologies to Topic Mapping

Computation helps evaluate the nature of the NIH research portfolio in ways that were previously very difficult.

What biomedical research does the federal government fund? How is it allocated across important diseases? Has that changed over time? Answering these questions at any level of detail is tougher than...
Jun, 08, 2012
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
Packing It All In: Curricula for Biomedical Computing

Balancing Breadth and Depth

The last decade saw a proliferation of training programs at the intersection of life science and computation, with more than 60 new degree and certificate programs launched in the United States alone...
Aug, 31, 2005
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
BD2K Centers’ Pan-NIH Impact

Each BD2K Center's tools and research impact multiple NIH Institutes

The data science tools and methods developed by the BD2K Centers—from clustering algorithms to data integration approaches, text mining, and image analysis—are valuable across the entire...
Jun, 21, 2017
The Active Transport of Ideas

Researchers examine the connection between editorial boards of medical informatics and bioinformatics journals

How ideas spread gets at the very fabric of scholarly research and has been studied from many different angles.   Many studies examine person-to-person connectivity in social networks. Within a...
Jun, 30, 2007
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