Meta on data

NIH is grasping the nettle and turning its attention to solving the big practical questions about big data. Stopping short of a vision for how data science should drive discovery, NIH has laid out a strategic plan that charts a course to facilitate sharing and lower barriers to usage by modernizing its workforce and its tools.

NIH has focused on the costly, inefficient status quo of big data in biology. It found solutions in the cloud, and in reaching beyond the traditional biomedical ecosystem for new skills and ideas. ...