Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Sessions to be held July 27-28

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) will host a two-day special track of sessions at the 29th Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and the 20th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB). The ODSS-led sessions will be held July 27-28 with the full conference scheduled for July 25-30.
The special track will include sessions on the NIH Cloud Platform Interoperability (NCPI) efforts, FAIR data and repositories, diversity in data science training and research, open research software, reproducibility and reuse, and bridging international efforts in data science.
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Agenda
Time (All times ET) | Event |
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7:00–8:20 a.m. | Session I: The NIH Cloud Platforms Interoperability (NCPI) Efforts Moderator: Susan Gregurick, Ph.D., NIH Associate Director for Data Science and Director, ODSS |
7:00–7:10 a.m. | Introductions Susan Gregurick, Ph.D. |
7:10–7:33 a.m. | Federated and FAIR Systems Interoperation in NCPI Brian O’Connor, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Data Sciences Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard |
7:33–7:56 a.m. | Clinical and Phenotypic Data Interoperability using FHIR in NCPI Allison Heath, Ph.D., Director, Data Technology and Innovation, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Robert Carroll, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University |
7:56–8:20 a.m. | Modeling the computing requirements and costs for genomics analysis in the cloud Michael Schatz, Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Computer Science and Biology, Johns Hopkins University |
8:20–8:40 a.m. | BREAK |
8:40–10:00 a.m. | Session II: FAIR Data/Repositories Moderators: |
8:40–8:45 a.m. | NIH Activities to Support a FAIR Repository Ecosystem Jennie Larkin, Ph.D., and Ishwar Chandramouliswaran |
8:45–9:00 a.m. | FAIR Research - What is in it for the Researchers? Mark Hahnel, Ph.D., Founder and CEO, Figshare |
9:00–9:15 a.m. | The Tribal Nature of Data Sharing Lara Mangravite, Ph.D., President, Sage Bionetworks |
9:15–9:30 a.m. | FAIR Data and FAIR Repositories John Chodacki, Director, University of California Curation Center (UC3) |
9:30–9:45 a.m. | Bridging from Researcher Data Management to ELIXIR Archives in the RDM Lifecycle Carole Goble, CBE FREng FBCS CITP, Professor of Computer Science at The University of Manchester, UK |
9:45–10:00 a.m. | An Introduction to ICPSR: A Place to Discover and Access Social and Behavioral Science Data for Secondary Analysis Sandra Tang, Ph.D., Assistant Research Scientist, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan |
10:00–10:20 a.m. | BREAK |
10:20–11:20 a.m. | Session III (Panel): Diversity in Data Science Training and Research Moderators: Panelists: |
Time (All times ET) | Event |
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7:00–8:20 a.m. | Session IV: Open Research Software Moderator: Heidi Sofia, Ph.D., Program Director, Division of Genomic Medicine, National Human Genome Research Institute |
7:00–7:10 a.m. | Introductions & Welcome Susan Gregurick, Ph.D. |
7:10–7:24 a.m. | mPATH: A Digital Health Navigator Ajay Dharod, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine and Vice Chair of Informatics and Analytics, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine |
7:24–7:38 a.m. | Software and Science at the Open Force Field Initiative Jeff Wagner, Ph.D., Senior Software Scientist, Open Force Field Initiative |
7:38–7:52 a.m. | UR_EAR--A Web App supporting computational models for auditory-nerve and midbrain responses Laurel Carney, Ph.D., Marylou Ingram Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Neuroscience, University of Rochester |
7:52–8:06 a.m. | Manual Brain Segmentation Workflows Using the SPINE Virtual Laboratory: from Desktop to Cloud Alfredo Morales Pinzon, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Radiology, Harvard Medical School |
8:06–8:20 a.m. | Human AI Loop in Cloud for Distributed Computation Pinaki Sarder, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo |
8:20–8:40 a.m. | BREAK |
8:40–10:00 a.m. | Session V: Reproducibility & Re-use Moderator: Alex Bui, Ph.D., Professor of Radiological Sciences, Bioengineering, and Bioinformatics; and Director of the Medical & Imaging Informatics Group, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA |
8:40–8:44 a.m. | Introduction and Welcome Alex Bui, Ph.D. |
8:44–9:03 a.m. | A Framework for Making Predictive Models Useful in Medicine Nigam Shah, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) at Stanford University, Associate CIO for Data Science at Stanford Healthcare |
9:03–9:22 a.m. | Veridical Data Science for precision medicine: subgroup discovery through staDISC Bin Yu, Ph.D., Chancellor’s Professor, Departments of Statistics and of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley |
9:22–9:41 a.m. | PREMIERE: A community-driven platform for reproducibility and reuse in biomedical predictive modeling Anders O. Garlid, Ph.D., Staff Research Assistant, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA |
9:41–10:00 a.m. | TBA Yasset Perez-Riverol, Ph.D., Technical Coordinator at European Bioinformatics Institute |
10:00–10:20 a.m. | BREAK |
10:20–11:20 a.m. | Session VI (Panel): Bridging International Efforts in Data Science Panelists: |