Courtesy: NIH
The NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative is considering the
development of a biomedical Data Catalog to make biomedical research data
findable and citable, analogously to what PubMed does for scientific
publications. Such a Data Catalog would be intended to make it easier for
researchers to find, share, and cite data, as well as the publications and
grants that they are associated with. A Data Catalog would contain a
limited amount of information and would be designed to help researchers
determine what data sets are available and how to get access to them. In
addition to supplying core, minimal metadata to ensure a valid data
reference, it is envisioned that a Data Catalog would include links out to
the location of the data, to the NIH Reporter record of the grant that
supported the research, to relevant publications within PubMed or journals,
and possibly to associated software or algorithms. Thus, a Data Catalog is
distinct from a data repository, but would help make the data in such
repositories more easily findable and citable in a consistent manner. NIH
has issued a Request for Information for the purpose of getting input on
this concept from the scientific community. Please go to the following
link to get to this RFI: Request for Information (RFI): Input on
Development of a NIH Data Catalog
<http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HG-13-011.html>
(NOT-HG-13-011)
National Human Genome Research Institute. We encourage you to respond if
you have an opinion about this idea, and to share the opportunity with your
colleagues.****
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Thank you,****
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Mark Guyer for the BD2K Initiative ****
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Prashanth Suravajhala, PhD.
http://wiki.bioinformatics.org/prash
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molecular descriptions in their genes and since genes are molecules and
exert their functions through other molecules, the molecular explanation
must constitute the core of understanding biological systems.=94 [S. Brenne=
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