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October 16, 2014 7:00 AM UTC

In the last month, the NIH has pledged almost $100 million for big data programs aimed at making information usable and accessible to the wider research community and to create a first-of-its-kind database of human cellular responses. The next hurdle will be training and convincing researchers to use the resource.

The Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative that was launched last December will receive an initial investment of almost $32 million in 2014 to set up 12 centers, each tasked with solving different challenges related to data collection, storage, analysis, interpretation and sharing. The initiative is expected to receive funding of up to $656 million by 2020...