Category Archives: biomedical data
NCBI Celebrates International Love Data Week
Providing free and open access to scientific literature and data Do you love biological data? Join NCBI in celebrating International Love Data Week, February 12-16, 2024! Love Data Week is an international celebration of data, which takes place every year during the week of Valentine’s Day. This year’s theme is “My Kind of Data,” focusing on … Continue reading NCBI Celebrates International Love Data Week
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NCBI releases newly designed dbSNP RefSNP Report – Alpha version
NCBI dbSNP is pleased to announce a newly designed Reference SNP (RefSNP, rs) Report webpage to provide enhanced performance and presentation for access to individual RefSNP records. This Alpha version of the report enables browsing of submitted and computed RefSNP … Continue reading 
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August 30 NCBI Minute: NCBI Hackathons, a framework for rapid prototyping of pipelines for bioinformatics, biomedical informatics and genomics
NCBI regularly organizes hackathons throughout the United States, where participants work in teams to apply their data science experience with public datasets. In this NCBI Minute, you will hear highlights from recent hackathons, see examples of the software created in … Continue reading 
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NCBI Facilitates Hackathons at the Bio-IT World Conference and Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence
NCBI usually participates in hackathons as direct organizers and planners. However, NCBI staff recently functioned as facilitators in two hackathons organized by outside groups: one at the Bio-IT World conference, and one at the Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence (SVAI) incubator. … Continue reading 
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Applications open for the August 2017 NCBI-NLM Bioinformatics Hackathon
From August 14th – 16th, the NCBI, with involvement from several NIH institutes, will host a Biomedical Data Science hackathon at the National Library of Medicine on the NIH campus. The hackathon will primarily focus on medical informatics, advanced bioinformatics … Continue reading 
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