News, Events, and Updates

NLM Collaboration Improves Standards for Reporting Clinical Genomics Variants

The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have released a set of standard transcripts for 99% of human protein coding genes and 99.8% of genes of clinical relevance. This set, part of the Matched Annotation from NCBI and EMBL-EBI (MANE) collection, harmonizes transcript and protein sets produced by this joint genome annotation effort.

Data Curation Network Seminar Series: Introduction to Data Curation & Services for Researchers

The NIH Office of Data Science Strategy, in partnership NLM, is organizing an event series led by the Data Curation Network.

NLM Announces a Research Education Program (R25) Funding Opportunity to Support Short-Term Research Experiences in Bioinformatics and Data Science and Enhance Diversity

NLM is pleased to announce RFA-LM-22-001, “Short-Term Research Education Experiences to Attract Talented Students to Biomedical Informatics/Data Science Careers and Enhance Diversity (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed).”

PubMed Central Website has a Fresh Look

NLM is pleased to announce an update to the user interface of its PubMed Central (PMC) digital archive—a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal articles. This is the first step in an ongoing modernization effort.

NLM Science, Technology, and Society Lecture | Taking on Big Tech: New Paradigms for New Possibilities

This lecture, part of the NLM Science, Technology, and Society Lecture Series, will look at emerging work that explores the impact of commercial technologies on the public.

NLM Lindberg-King Lecture & Scientific Symposium

This all-day event, "Science, Society and the Legacy of Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD," will be held in honor of Dr. Lindberg, former NLM director, who passed away in August 2019.

NLM Classification Updated

NLM Announces 2022 Michael E. DeBakey Fellows in the History of Medicine

Following its call for applications to the NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine, NLM is pleased to announce its 2022 DeBakey Fellows.

NLM Announces 2022 History Talks

NLM announces its 2022 History Talks.