IDSC joins International NIH Data Commons Consortium

If you build it, the data will not only come, it will be standardized, accessible, and reusable by researchers around the world. With this in mind, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is creating its Data Commons initiative, and recently invited University of Miami investigators to contribute their expertise. “There is a big effort at the NIH now to bring biomedical research into the data science era. Data science including machine learning is all around us—like recommendation engines for shopping or movies, image and voice recognition, language translation, even the news you see on social media, and your personalized internet search results,” said Stephan Schürer, PhD, Program Director, Drug Discovery, and Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the University of  Miami Miller School of Medicine. Read more “IDSC joins International NIH Data Commons Consortium” →