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NIH announces awards for data processing

OCT 10, 2014
Physics Today

Science : The National Institutes of Health has announced $32 million in awards as part of its Big Data to Knowledge initiative. The awards will fund researchers who are developing tools to analyze the large amounts of data being produced by modern biology research. One of the projects will combine independent sets of DNA samples, brain scans, and other data to make it easier to look for statistically significant variations associated with a range of neurological and psychological diseases.

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