Big Data to Knowledge Updates

BD2K Updates 05/06/2016 Distributed to The NN/LM All Staff listserv featuring links to learning opportunities and related “big” data articles. Data Science Opportunities NCATS Launches the Biomedical Data Translator program: Applications due June 1, 2016. Awards will be made by September 30, 2016. For more information please visit https://ncats.nih.gov/files/NCATS-Translator-FY16-FOA.pdf. Please direct all inquiries to: translator-questions@nih.gov.  Data Science Events Duke University, in partnership with the National Library of Medicine and the NIH Office of the Associate Director for Data Science, is sponsoring a May 12, 3:00-5:00PM forum on the NIH Campus for the release of the book, Governing Digitally Integrated Genetic Resources, Data, and Literature – Global Intellectual Property Strategies for a Redesigned Microbial Research Commons (Cambridge University Press, 2016).  RSVP here. The forum will explore how the Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity both constrains and facilitates access to plant and microbial materials and data for research and applications. The Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics invites you to attend a two-day workshop on the challenges of applying scientific inference to big data. For more information, including the preliminary program, check out the workshop website. June 8-9, 2016, Keck Center, Room 100, 500 Fifth St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001. This workshop will be profes...
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