I'm a seasoned computational biologist who has always had a passion for understanding how data science methods and technologies can be applied to biomedical data to yield a better understanding of biology.
This will generate many discussions and interactions across all NIH institutes, other govt agencies, non profit and commercial organizations in the US and internationally.
My hope is that we will be more easily able to share, access, analyze, find and provide attribution to biomedical data and tools regardless of geographical location, size or complexity so as to enable new biomedical discoveries.
To that end I have been developing the concept of a Data Commons - a cloud based platfo...