Announcements & News

Are you using R, but have run into a problem that has you stu​mped? Help is available! The NIH Library is pleased to offer a new drop-in consulting service for R users. R Office Hours will be held on the second Tuesday of each month from 12-2 p.m. in the NIH Library Media Room.

The NIH Office of the Associate Director for Data Science and the NIH Library are pleased to host Software Carpentry Workshops taught by volunteers from the NIH community. Software Carpentry’s mission is to help researchers by teaching them core computing skills that will help them be more productive in a small research team.

Are you using R, but have run into a problem that has you stumped? Help is available! The NIH Library is pleased to offer a new drop-in consulting service for R users. R Office Hours will be held on the second Tuesday of each month from 12-2 pm in the NIH Library Media Room.

The NIH Library’s Bioinformatics Support Program has organized a CLC Genomics Workbench class for Wednesday, August 31. This training will be held in the NIH Library Training Room, Building 10, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Have you ever wondered how to extract the bibliographic data contained within key resources (PubMed, Web of Knowledge, Scopus) for internal projects? Scholarly publishers and databases offer APIs (application programming interfaces) to allow users the ability to systematically access data to serve a variety of research purposes.

In conjunction with the NIH Research Festival​, the Library’s open house will showcase why we truly are “Your Partner in Research.” New this year will be a demonstration of the data visualization touch screen provided by the NIH Office of the Associate Director for Data Science.

CLC Genomics Workbench, for analyzing, comparing, and visualizing next generation sequencing data, incorporates cutting-edge technology and algorithms, while also supporting and integrating with the rest of a typical NGS workflow.