title: The National Institutes of Health's Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative: capitalizing on biomedical big data.
abstract: 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 how to extract value from the data, both for the individual investigator and the overall research community, create the analytic tools needed to enhance utility of the data, provide the next generation of trained personnel, and develop data science concepts and tools that can be made available to all stakeholders.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Ronald
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Margolis
authors.affiliation: Office of the Director, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Leslie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Derr
authors.affiliation: National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dunn
authors.affiliation: National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Huerta
authors.affiliation: National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Jennie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Larkin
authors.affiliation: National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Jerry
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sheehan
authors.affiliation: National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Guyer
authors.affiliation: National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Eric D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Green
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D066264:Datasets as Topic; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical; D014481:United States
keywords: BD2K; NIH; biomedical big data