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NIH leaders are calling for the scientific community to develop a consensus on the appropriate use of race and ethnicity in biomedical research.
… in biomedical research, National Institute of Health (NIH) leaders are calling for the scientific community to develop a consensus on its appropriate use in research . … NHGRI and NIMHD to discuss the use of race and ethnicity data in genomics, biomedical, and clinical research , and its …
Research at NHGRI
NHGRI researchers develop freely available software and analysis tools to help researchers around the world analyze and explore their genomic data.
… have developed a number of software and analysis tools to help researchers around the world analyze and explore their genomic data. These tools are free and openly accessible to anyone. … … bam2mpg A Bayesian genotype caller for NextGen sequencing data. BuddySuite A collection of four independent, yet …
Event
On May 23, 2023, NHGRI will host a webinar: ELSI Research and the New NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy.
… will focus on the following topics: Overview of the NIH Data Sharing Management Policy Application of the DMS Policy to ELSI Research Data sharing templates and resources Q&A …
Policies and Guidance
Frequently Asked Questions regarding the NHGRI's Metadata and Phenotypic Data Sharing Expectations.
… Frequently Asked Questions Data sharing is an important aspect of the research endeavor … and more. NHGRI-funded researchers subject to NIH’s data sharing policies are expected to share …
News Release
NIH programs are establishing which genes and genomic variants play a role in human disease, enabling use in medicine and research.
… enabling their use in genomic medicine and research. NIH's Clinical Genome Resource ( ClinGen ) and ClinVar programs address a major barrier to incorporating genomic medicine into healthcare, which is a … experts to develop standard processes for reviewing data about gene variants and their connections to health and …
Research Funding
​CSER is rapidly advancing the knowledge necessary to develop best practices for implementating genomic sequence data into clinical care. ​
… Reports of genomic sequencing being applied to the medical care of individual patients are becoming more … but much more needs to be done before the use of sequence data becomes routine. Evidence regarding the most promising … caveats regarding statistical uncertainties, incomplete knowledge, and unanticipated findings, remain incompletely …
Fact Sheets
Data used to estimate the cost of sequencing the human genome over time since the Human Genome Project.
… Program. Here, NHGRI provides an analysis of these data, which gives one view of the remarkable improvements in DNA sequencing technologies and data-production pipelines in recent years. … The … data presented here are summarized relative to two metrics: (1) "Cost per Megabase of DNA Sequence" - the …
Event
The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Consortium presented a half-day workshop on the accessibility & utilization of ENCODE data.
… Elements (ENCODE) held a workshop as an ancillary event to the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual … workshop on the accessibility & utilization of ENCODE data. The workshop included an introduction to the ENCODE project and resources available to access ENCODE data, as well as specific research applications using ENCODE …
Fact Sheet
Genomic data science is a field of study that enables researchers to use powerful computational and statistical methods to decode the functional information hidden in DNA sequences.
… The Big Picture Genomic data science is a field of study that enables researchers to … in genomic data science and data science activities at NIH, see the following resources: … As biomedical research …
The Genomics Landscape
In 2022, The Genomics Landscape spotlighted genomic data sharing each month in a series of entries. This page contains a collection of each of those entries.
… Landscape Originally published: January 13, 2022  Data sharing is central to the field of genomics. Both human and non-human genomic … did you know that although NHGRI is one of the smallest NIH institutes by budget, it ranks #3 in total number of Data …