Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) France Anne-Dominic Córdova, PhD, spoke before a full auditorium on September 11 as the guest speaker for the second Annual Donald A.B. Lindberg and Donald West King Lecture. The lecture, named in honor of Donald Lindberg, MD, former director of NLM, and Donald West King, PhD, former deputy…
In our series of Quick Q&As with scientists who work in the NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), we’re pleased to introduce the Algorithmic Methods in Computational and Systems Biology group. This team works in three basic areas: cancer and diseases, gene regulation, and algorithms for efficient utilization of large data sets. “This is…
You wouldn’t expect Holly Herro to be a fighter. She’s graceful, slender, and soft spoken. Yet Herro is as tough as any heavyweight champion. When it comes to the threats of time, light, humidity, and potential pests damaging important historical documents, she’s one of the fiercest competitors in town. She does whatever it takes—whether it’s…
We were curious. What is going on in Ivan Ovcharenko’s group in NCBI’s Computational Biology Branch? On the sixth floor of NLM’s Lister Hill Center, Dr. Ivan Ovcharenko and his team are deciphering what he calls the “second language” of the human genome. He explains, “The primary language of genomes—which represents the genetic code of…
As we celebrate National Women’s History Month and the success of the film Hidden Figures about the remarkable story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, mathematicians working at NASA in the 1960s, NLM in Focus is pleased to share some links to photos, bios, and videos of African American women in science…
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