The National Institutes of Health's Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative: capitalizing on biomedical big data.

The National Institutes of Health's Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative: capitalizing on biomedical big data.
J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2014 Jul 9;
Authors: Margolis R, Derr L, Dunn M, Huerta M, Larkin J, Sheehan J, Guyer M, Green ED
Abstract
Biomedical research has and will continue to generate large amounts of data (termed 'big data') in many formats and at all levels. Consequently, there is an increasing need to better understand and mine the data to further knowledge and foster new discovery. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has initiated a Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative to maximize the use of biomedical big data. BD2K seeks to better define how to extract value from the data, both for the individual investigator and the overall research community, create the analytic tools needed to enhance utility of the data, provide the next generation of trained personnel, and develop data science concepts and tools that can be made available to all stakeholders.
PMID: 25008006 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - July 9, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Margolis R, Derr L, Dunn M, Huerta M, Larkin J, Sheehan J, Guyer M, Green ED Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: research