The National Institutes of Health's Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative: capitalizing on biomedical big data.
Biomedical research has and will continue to generate large amounts of data (termed 'big data') in many formats and at all levels. Consequently, there is an increasing need to better understand and mine the data to further knowledge and foster new discovery. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has initiated a Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative to maximize the use of biomedical big data. BD2K seeks to better define [...]
Author(s): Margolis, Ronald, Derr, Leslie, Dunn, Michelle, Huerta, Michael, Larkin, Jennie, Sheehan, Jerry, Guyer, Mark, Green, Eric D
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2014-002974