Announcements & News

Join the NIH Library and the Office of Data Science Strategy, in celebrating Pi Day—a day early, on Friday, March 13th. 

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.”

OmicCircos is a free tool used to generate high-quality circular plots for visualizing annotations and genomic variations, including mutation patterns, copy number variations (CNVs), expression patterns, and methylation patterns.

​​​NIH and HHS staff are invited to attend the Data Visualization Community of Practice (CoP) meeting on February 10, organized by the NIH Library Technology Hub team.

The NIH Library Bioinformatics Support Program has organized a GeneSpring 13.1 training class for January 5. This free training will be held in the NIH Library Training Room, Building 10, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., which includes Tips and Tricks from 1 to 4 p.m. Registration is required.

OmicCircos is a free tool used to generate high-quality circular plots for visualizing annotations and genomic variations, including mutation patterns, copy number variations (CNVs), expression patterns, and methylation patterns.

NIH and HHS staff are invited to attend our quarterly Data Visualization Community of Practice (COP) meeting on Oct 8, from 1 – 2:30 p.m., EDT.

NIH and HHS staff are invited to attend the first Data Visualization Community of Practice (COP) meeting on July 16, organized by the NIH Library Technology Sandbox team.

The NIH Library Bioinformatics Support Program​ is presenting a “Data Analysis on Microarray and NGS Data in Golden Helix SNP & Variation Suite (SVS) and VarSeq” class for June 24. The free training will be held in the NIH Library Training Room, Building 10, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Registration is required.

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. ​​