We made it! Another year is upon us, and with it, a sense of anticipation for what’s to come.
We’re not those who can just wait for time to tell its tale, however, so we’ve put on our prognosticator’s hat, peered into the future, and come up with our list of what’s in for the new year and what got left behind.
Of course, we know you’ve got your own ideas, so chime in below.
OUT with 2018 |
IN for 2019 |
|---|---|
| Data what? | Data Science! |
| In the room where it happened | In the Library Where It’s Happening: “The Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander Hamilton’s America” |
| Gender gaps in science | NLM scientists being recognized for advancing the careers of women in computational science |
| Isolated data | Data sets linked to PubMed articles |
| MedlinePlus Advisory Group | NIH Consumer Health Content Community of Practice |
| Siloed information | Town halls and open doors |
| Artificial intelligence in sci-fi movies | Artificial intelligence in medicine |
| Incremental innovation | Big, hairy audacious goals |
| Missed research opportunities | New intramural investigators |
| Reviewing NLM’s intramural research programs | Implementing Blue Ribbon Panel recommendations |
| One-off research findings | Computational reproducibility |
| Data for data’s sake | Data for health’s sake |
| German measles | “Rashes to Research. Scientists and Parents Confront 1964 Rubella Epidemic” (Exhibition coming in June) |
| Old town | New Tox Town website |
| Past generations | Next-Gen PubMed |
| What the hack? | NLM Hackathons |
| Big game hunting | Computational virus hunting |
| Going it alone | Wiki collaborations |
| Manual searches | Programmatic PubMed queries using E-Utilities |
| What the heck? | Hackathons |
| Having a blast only on weekends | Having lgBLAST 1.12 every day of the year! |
| Unknown women physicians | “Rise, Serve, Lead. America’s Women Physicians” (Exhibition coming in the fall) |
| FRBR | IFLA-LRM |
| Librarians stacking books | Librarians supporting data science |
| Manpower | Deleted from MeSH subheadings. (After all, it’s 2019.) |
| One size fits all medical care | Moving precision medicine forward with All of Us and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine |
| Office of Health Information Programs Development | Office of Strategic Initiatives |
| Intramural research in LHC and NCBI | NLM’s Intramural Research Program |
| Requesting PGAP service to generate prokaryotic genome annotation after submitting to GenBank | Generating PGAP prokaryotic genome annotation on your own and in the cloud before submitting to GenBank |
| Harassment at work | “Harassment Does Not Work Here” |
| Organic data standards activities across NLM divisions | Chief Health Data Standards Officer |
| Machine learning | Neural networks, deep learning, and artificial intelligence |
| Multiple differing definitions of a single selected transcript per human protein-coding gene to use for reporting or experiment control set | An internationally curated dataset of select human transcripts |
| Completing the strategic plan | Implementing the strategic plan |
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