Big data, meet big money: NIH funds centers to crunch health data

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In a LA Times article, Dr. Collins says he expects the NIH BD2K Initiative to invest $656 million over the next seven years to make biomedical data sets more accessible to researchers. Healy, Melissa. Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: NIH Director’s Page – Read entire story here.

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