NLM Musings from the Mezzanine
Innovations in Health Information from the National Library of Medicine
Guest post by Mark D. Hill from the Computing Community Consortium and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The content originally appeared in The CCC Blog on January 23, 2018. It is reprinted with permission. For weeks [The CCC Blog has] been recapping the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Symposium from the perspective of the researchers and industry … Continue reading Connecting Computing Research with National Priorities
See last week’s guest post, “Adventures of a Computational Biologist in the Genome Space,” for Part 1 of Dr. Koonin’s musings on the importance of computational analysis in biomedical discovery. While the genomic revolution rolls on, a new one has been quietly fomenting over the last decade or so, only to take over the science … Continue reading Exploring the Brave New World of Metagenomics
Guest post by Dr. Eugene Koonin, NLM National Center for Biotechnology Information. More than 30 years ago, when I started my research in computational biology (yes, it has been a while), it was not at all clear that one could do biological research using computers alone. Indeed, the common perception was that real insights into … Continue reading Adventures of a Computational Biologist in the Genome Space
Guest post by Lincoln Weed, son of the late Dr. Lawrence L. Weed and co-author with him of the book Medicine in Denial and other publications. Dr. Weed, who died June 3, 2017, was the originator of "knowledge coupling" tools for clinical decision support and the problem-oriented medical record, including its problem list and SOAP note components. "Patients are sitting on a treasure … Continue reading Larry Weed’s Legacy and the Next Generation of Clinical Decision Support
On the road to data science at NLM
Guest post by Vint Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google. In a recent blog, Dr. Brennan correctly identified a future issue: access to medical information from a Mars colony, should one be established. In her summary, she said there was no internet in space. Actually, there is. It uses a protocol suite … Continue reading There Is an Internet in Space