Announcements & News

The NIH Library is pleased to present a one-day bioinformatics workshop and several bioinformatics classes this month, all offered online.

The NIH Library Bioinformatics Support Program has organized a training class on using Partek Genomics Suite (NGS) for analysis of gene expression and functional analysis of microarray data. This class will be held on Tuesday, September 13, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the NIH Library training room, Building 10.

The National Week of Making (June 17-23, 2016) celebrates the ingenuity and creativity of the diverse community of inventors in the Maker Movement. Join in celebrating the National Week of Making with a special symposium at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) titled “Making Health: Inspiring Innovative Solutions for Research and Clinical Care.”

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.

Through the NIH Library’s Technology Sandbox, a 2014 trial of 3D printers exposed NIH staff to cutting edge technology for work and research. The pilot was so successful that the Library is now permanently offering free 3D printing services. ​​