NLM is more than a library! Check out this video to learn about NLM as the world’s research engine – providing scientists with tools, methods, and databanks to better understand and improve health for people everywhere. And see how NLM supports research through both its Intramural and Extramural programs to make the library a leader in biomedical informatics and computational health data science research!
Non-audio described version - https://youtu.be/ySBuJ_2O2tk
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Transcript:
[Brennan] The National Library of Medicine is one for the twenty-seven institutes and
centers here at the National Institutes of Health. And even though the word "library"
is in our name, we do so much more than collect books. In fact, there hasn't been a discovery in the last fifty years that we haven't helped to contribute to in some way, by having literature that supports the question or by our massive genomic databanks. This allows for the discovery of new drugs, allows for discovery of new vaccines. One of the important things we do is we support research. Now research, from the perspective of the library, focuses on information science, on data management, and new ways to understand health through data. Our investigators, both in our intramural program and extramural programs, are specialists in understanding how to build the tools that let us understand large data, let us draw clinical insights, and biological findings from. We also work very hard to be sure the data are properly protected. That is so that individuals who have the right to use the data can get access to it freely, and we protect the rights of the individuals who contribute the data to us in the first place. We serve a very large audience with this research data.
Citizen scientists in high schools can look through our databanks to better understand
the beginnings of epigenetics. Industry, pharma uses our databanks to help design new therapeutics or find good drug targets. And of course, we're extremely well know for our support for the research community across the world. Recently, with the COVID pandemic, these large databanks have become critical in understanding the spread of the virus and the variants that are appearing across the world. Our special focus in research is the development of scalable, reusable methods that can help us better understand clinical and biological data. These two are complementary, many times use similar techniques, and often learn from each other as we try to understand health in everyday living through data.