NIH BD2K Updates

Big Data to Knowledge, or BD2K, is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Initiative to establish biomedical research as a digital enterprise, to support new knowledge and to maximize community engagement. Check the BD2K homepage for more information, and here is some recent news: BD2K News: Phil Bourne was interviewed by DNAdigest, an online genomics research journal on July 25.  The interview is published on their blog page: http://dnadigest.org/dnadigest-interviews-phil-bourne-bd2k/ ENIGMA planning meeting, June 24-25, included a co-meeting with the IMAGEN investigators. See detailed agenda with updates and summaries here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mxZMDDQmQNGkSy9E_pqbVP95xQbizf63CWCdyo55yGA. NIH Connectome Celebration, HCP-users Lecture, June 20, includes an up-to-date ENIGMA summary. Watch the videocast here (it starts 3 hours 36 minutes into webcast):  https://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?File=19759&bhcp=1 ENIGMA All-Hands Meeting, June 13, a total of 54 abstracts were presented and are now publicly available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByEecnS3A-i1MTNISnFmbVBta2c/view BD2K Events: “Save the Date” 2016 All Hands Meeting & Science Symposium, November 29-December 1, 2016 (TBD) Washington, DC Metro Area. Details Forthcoming. For more information please visit https://datascience.nih.gov/bd2k/AHM PLEASE NOTE the All Hands Meetings (November 29 -30) will be opened to BD2K Grantees and NIH/HHS staff ONLY. The Science Symposium...
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