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Apply Now for the Single Cell in the Cloud Codeathon in New York City
Wednesday, December 18, 2019 — Applications Due Dec. 30 Read More
Project Proposals for Single Cell in the Cloud Codeathon Due Dec. 2
Tuesday, November 26, 2019 — Event to be held Jan. 15-17, 2020 in New York City Read More
Draft NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing and Supplemental Draft Guidance Available for Comment
Thursday, November 7, 2019 — Comments Accepted Until Jan. 10, 2020 Read More
Data Science Fellowship Opportunity
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 — Cancer Drug Discovery Data Scientist Positions Open Read More
NIH Awards Contracts to Increase Availability of High-Quality Data Using FHIR Standard
Monday, September 30, 2019 — The National Institutes of Health recently awarded two contracts related to the use of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard… Read More
Five Petabytes of Sequence Read Archive Data Now in the Cloud
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 — The Sequence Read Archive (SRA) is the largest publicly available repository of raw, next-generation sequence data, and half of it is now available… Read More
New Request for Information Seeks Public Input on Using FHIR Standard for Research
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 — Submissions Due November 23 Read More
Associate Director for Data Science Susan Gregurick shares thoughts on "Enhancing Data Sharing, One Dataset at a Time" in blog post
Wednesday, September 18, 2019 — Associate Director for Data Science Susan Gregurick shares thoughts on "Enhancing Data Sharing, One Dataset at a Time" in NLM blog post.Read Now Read More
Pre-register to Participate in Metadata Automation DREAM Challenge
Wednesday, September 11, 2019 — The Metadata Automation DREAM Challenge invites developers, data scientists, data curators and all professionals from the data science community to… Read More
NIH to Require ORCID Identifiers for Trainees and Fellows to Link Science Contributions over Their Careers
Thursday, August 22, 2019 — Research careers often start with a student’s first laboratory experience, which is guided by a professor; these experiences can spark a lifetime… Read More
Office of Data Science Strategy Releases NIH Guide Notice and Notice of Special Interest Encouraging Use of FHIR® Standard
Tuesday, July 30, 2019 — The Office of Data Science Strategy at the National Institutes of Health recently issued a Guide Notice encouraging NIH researchers to explore the… Read More
NIH-funded Researchers Invited to Use NIH Figshare
Tuesday, July 23, 2019 — The NIH has formed a partnership with Figshare to pilot a way to make datasets resulting from NIH-funded research more accessible. Read More
Submit Your Ideas to Revolutionize Childhood Cancer Data Sharing
Tuesday, July 23, 2019 — Submissions due August 23 Read More
A Request for Proposals (RFP) has been released to build the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Cancer Data Aggregator.
Friday, July 12, 2019 — Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research is requesting proposals to develop a query engine called the Cancer Data Aggregator (CDA). Read More
Registration Open – NIH/NCATS Workshop
Friday, June 14, 2019 — "Machine Intelligence in Healthcare: Perspectives on Trustworthiness, Explainability, Usability and Transparency": July 12 Read More