Venter To Speak at NLM Conference
Dr. Craig Venter, founder, chairman and CEO of the J. Craig Venter Institute, will be among the speakers at a conference, “Data Science Innovation at the Intersection of Biomedical Research and the Library,” June 13-14 in Lister Hill Auditorium, Bldg. 38A. The event is cosponsored by the National Library of Medicine and the Friends of the NLM.
The conference will bring together key stakeholders including researchers, government, industry, publishers and health care consumer representatives, to provide a forum for presentations and discussions around supporting data sharing, the changing role of journals and peer review, use of “FAIR” (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) data sets, trends in mining big data to yield knowledge, opportunities for trans-NIH data science activities and more. The constructive and practical outcomes will benefit producers as well as users of scientific discoveries.
Register at fnlm.org. The full speaker list can be found at http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/842329/e799571d63/1573012165/7cb269a6c9/.