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DataScience@NIH Updates
Driving Discovery Through Data
06/02/17

DataScience@NIH News:

Highlights and video of selected presentations from the May 16-18 BD2K-LINCS Data Science Symposium are now available on the BD2K Centers Coordinating Center website. See researchers from the Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures (LINCS) program describe “Global Analysis and Visualization of the Thousands of Expression Signatures for Drug and Target Discovery.”

OpenSim will hold a thematic session at the 26th Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB) in Brisbane, Australia, July 2017. The goal of this session is to highlight the diversity of research being conducted with OpenSim. Speakers will discuss new methods for generating accurate simulations of movement and applications of the software to areas such as rehabilitation and the design of robotic assistive devices. Learn more about the session.

NCBI’s Virus Variation resource makes it easy to find genome and protein sequences for a number of viruses – no more stumbling through multiple synonyms to find what you need. Now you can search using standardized biological criteria and intuitive pull-down menus. Virus Variation has modules for seven viral groups: influenza virus, Dengue virus, West Nile virus, Ebolavirus, MERS coronavirus, Rotavirus A, and Zika virus. These modules now include a variety of new enhancements, including standardized search criteria.  For a full list of updates, see the latest story on NCBI Insights: https://go.usa.gov/xN5jV

BioCaddie announced a webinar, Preparing Biomedical Information Professionals to Understand and Teach Research Data Management, on Thursday, June 8, 2017 at 10:00 AM- 11:00 AM (PST) where Alisa Surkis and Kevin Read will present.  

Details on how to join Webinar:

• *Must use Web and Audio*
• Please include name and company when joining meeting.
• Web: http://www.readytalk.com/ (Join meeting with Access Code 2201876)
• Audio: 1-866-740-1260 (Access Code 2201876) (US)
• Audio: 08004960576 (Access Code 2201876) (UK)
• Click here to test your computer's compatibility before the meeting
• More information about this webinar, future webinars and events can be found at: https://biocaddie.org/events/webinars

NLM is teaming with the Friends of the National Library of Medicine and Research!America to host a conference, “Consequential and Reproducible Clinical Studies: Charting the Course for Continuous Improvement.” It will take place June 14-15, in the Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A (Lister Hill Center), first floor. The conference will discuss prevention of non-repeatable research and inconsequential studies, highlight positive strategies to achieve trustworthy results and significant quality improvement in clinical research studies. The constructive and practical messages should benefit producers as well as users of clinical research discoveries.

• The complete program, along with information about registration, travel, and accommodations, can be found at: http://www.fnlm.org/events_upcoming.php.

Data Science Opportunities:

The NIH, under the BD2K program, will be launching a Data Commons Pilot Phase to test ways to store, access, and share FAIR biomedical data and associated tools in the cloud. The NIH Data Commons Pilot Phase is expected to span fiscal years 2017-2020, with an estimated total budget of approximately $55.5 Million, pending available funds. Learn more at: https://commonfund.nih.gov/bd2k/commons.

Become a mentor in the NIH Friday Afternoon Data Science Mentorship Program! Skills in Data Science are intrinsically necessary in many areas of biomedical research. While didactic training opportunities exist, there is a growing interest in direct, one-on-one mentorship and training. We expect the program to create a community of mentors and trainees who can network and help each other with their projects.

• Sign up to be a mentor: https://goo.gl/forms/DECl87E3oYsuEXcj2.
• Sign up to be a learner: https://goo.gl/forms/Q6kyNqNp8NCk5FPX2.
• For more information: https://goo.gl/forms/bRQGMTpNTRUCfe0n2 or email bioinformatics-training@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.

Center for Open Science Preregistration Challenge: Preregistration adds credibility to research results by documenting in advance what will be tested. If you have a project that is entering the data collection phase, the COS is giving away $1,000 to 1,000 researchers who pre-register before they publish. For additional information, visit: https://cos.io/prereg/?utm_source=ambassador&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=prereg-prom.

Call for Submissions for a special issue on "Open Research Data Resources" for Scientific Data, for articles describing novel data resources or significant and recent extensions to existing data repositories. Organizers include: Patricia Cruse (Executive Director, DataCite); Michael Huerta (NLM Coordinator of Data & Open Science Initiatives, NIH), Mike Thorley (Head of Science Information, NERC); and Susanna-Assunta Sansone (Associate Director, University of Oxford e-Research Centre).

• Manuscript submissions due July 31, 2017.
• For additional information, visit: http://blogs.nature.com/scientificdata/2017/03/23/3955/.

RFA-NS-17-018 “BRAIN Initiative: Team-Research BRAIN Circuit Programs - TeamBCP (U19).” This program will support integrated, interdisciplinary collaborative research teams from prior BRAIN technology and/or integrated approaches teams, and/or new projects from the research community that focus on examining circuit functions related to behavior, using advanced and innovative technologies.

• Applications due October 17, 2017.

The bioCADDIE DDICC Core Team is pleased to announce the release of DataMed v2.0! DataMed is designed to be for data what PubMed has been for scientific literature. This version of the Data Discovery Index (DDI) prototype includes many additional datasets and reflects considerable user/stakeholder input. The user interface has also been updated to reflect this input.

• Your feedback is welcome, via the issue tracker included in the landing page.
• For more information about DataMed v2.0, email: biocaddie@ucsd.edu or Anupama.E.Gururaj@uth.tmc.edu.

The BD2K Training Coordinating Center has been creating and populating the Educational Resource Discovery Index (ERuDIte), a database of 10,000+ data science educational resources from collective BD2K activities and from around the web.

• Learn More: http://www.bigdatau.org/. Find the ERuDite search box at the top of the page to access the database.
• To contribute your feedback, contact John Van Horn at: jvanhorn@usc.edu.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has launched the beta version of their new ClinicalTrials.gov website and it is now available for user testing.

• Feedback from the public is welcomed and encouraged via their survey portal: https://survey.foreseeresults.com/survey/display?cid=WyHFr2m0PoaGCBUsi00QIQ==&sid=link-ct.

Data Science Events:

dbGaP 10th Anniversary Symposium, June 9, 2017, 1:30pm - 3:00pm, Bldg 1, Wilson Hall, on the NIH Main Campus in Bethesda, MD. The symposium includes six lightning talks highlighting the past, present, and future of the dbGaP resource followed by a social hour. Abstracts for each lightning talk are available on NCBI Insights: https://go.usa.gov/xN8KP. For additional information, contact: bioinformatics-training@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.

Machine Learning-Brain Imaging Lecture Series presents “Machine Learning that Understands Complex Data” by Dr. Janusz Wojtusiak, Director of the Center for Discovery Science & Health Informatics at George Mason University, June 12, 2017, 2:00pm-3:00pm ET, Bldg. 49, Room 1A51/1A59, on the NIH Main Campus in Bethesda, MD. For additional information or to schedule a meeting with the speaker, contact Daniel Handwerker at: handwerkerd@mail.nih.gov.

Jumping into OpenSim 4.0: Interactive Tutorial at ISB 2017. The OpenSim team from Stanford University and the BD2K Moblilize Center will lead an interactive tutorial on "Building Muscle-Driven" Simuations at the 26th Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB) in Brisbane, Australia, July 23-27, 2017. Learn more about the tutorial.

DCH2017 International Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage, August 30, 2017 – September 1, 2017, in Berlin. Organized by CODATA-Germany, the German National Committee for CODATA, Committee on Data for Science and Technology of the International Council for Science (ICSU). Registration is now open, take advantage of specially reduced rates for early booking available until June 12, 2017, http://DCH2017.net.

The G-OnRamp Project will hold two beta user workshops on June 20-22 and July 25-27, 2017 at Washington University in St. Louis. Participants will use G-OnRamp to create genome browsers for collaborative annotations of eukaryotic genomes. G-OnRamp uses Galaxy workflows to construct evidence tracks (e.g., protein sequence similarity, gene predictions, RNA-Seq, repeats) and display the results on the UCSC Genome Browser or JBrowse. Educators can use G-OnRamp for hands-on learning in data-intensive biology; researchers can use G-OnRamp for best-practice annotation of novel genomes. To Register: http://gonramp.org/signup. For additional information, contact Jeremy Goecks (goecksj@ohsu.edu) or Sarah Elgin (selgin@wustl.edu).

Register for the 5th RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Computational Methods in Genetics (RECOMB-Genetics), July 27-28, 2017, and the 6th RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Computational Cancer Biology (RECOMB-CCB), July 28-29, 2017, University of California Los Angeles. To register, visit: https://commerce.cashnet.com/cgsiandrecombregistration. For additional information, visit: http://computationalgenomics.bioinformatics.ucla.edu/2017-recomb-satellite-meetings/.

Force 11 Scholarly Communications Institute, July 31 - August 4, 2017, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA. For more information or to register, visit: http://mailchi.mp/force11/f11-scholarly-communications-institute-registration-open.

NINR 2017 Precision Health Boot Camp, “Precision Health: From ‘Omics’ to Data Science, August 7-11, 2017 on the NIH Main Campus in Bethesda, MD. This free, one-week intensive research training course covers the latest advances in genomics, pharmacogenomics, nutrigenomics, metabolomics, microbiomics, and data science as well as the associated ethical, legal and social implications of precision health. The course is provided by NINR at no cost. Registration is now closed. To join the wait list, visit: http://www.ninr.nih.gov/bootcamp.

The Principle Investigator of the BD2K ENIGMA Consortium, Dr. Paul Thompson, will present the Keynote Lecture at the Cognomics Conference, September 7-8, 2017 in Nijmegen, Netherlands. For additional information or to register, visit: https://visitors.cngrs.com/cognomics2017.

Save the Date!  International CODATA 2017 Conference, “Global Challenges and Data-Driven Science,” October 8-13, 2017, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

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