NIH Bets Big Bucks On Big Data

The National Institutes of Health plans to invest up to $96 million over four years to put big data to work solving persistent health riddles, the agency said Monday.

The money will be filtered through six to eight centers of excellence proposed by outside researchers, the agency said.

The Big Data to Knowledge, or BD2K, Centers of Excellence will be tasked with making large, complex and unstructured data sets more accessible to biomedical researchers through new software, better storage and improved data sharing and training.