This is a short response to the 2018 RFI on NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science

On March 5th, 2018 this post announced a request for information (RFI) on the NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science. Responses are due April 2nd, 2018 on this form.

This repo contains language that you can use in your response to this RFI

A Similar RFI only generated 53 responses. Your voice will be heard!

1. If possible, read the entire Strategic Plan. If you don't have that much time, read one of the Goal sections most relevant to you (individual sections are as short as 10 minutes of reading).

2. We have created specific responses to each of the Plan's stated goals. You may copy and paste all/some/none of what you agree with using the online NIH form (step 3). The NIH form has a 500 word limit so consider using one of the attachments (You can write "see attached" in the comment box):

• All_documents.pdf : PDF of the Preamble, sample NIH review form, and all collected comments
• combined_response.pdf : PDF of the Preamble and all collected comments
• preamble.pdf : PDF of the Preamble alone
• StrategicPlan_NIH_review30March2018.pdf: PDF of the sample NIH review

You may modify anything you find here, or write your own response.(Please consider submitting your own responses here for the community to use, or review even after the RFI due date).

3. By April 2, 2018 11:59:59 PM EDT access the NIH online form, write in and/or copy-paste your responses. Please follow all of the form instructions/guidelines, Invalid responses (e.g. automated, or in some other way disqualified) will not be accepted. Only submit comments that represent your views; see guide notice instructions

Thanks for your contribution It is a responsibility to ensure NIH can act on the most accurate and best possible advice.

Please submit a pull request, or (and especially if you aren't familiar with Github) please click the issues tab to open an issue, or Tweet/email me (email = my last name @ cshl.edu).

Even after the due date, please feel free to post here for others to see.

Disclaimer: Contributions are only the personal opinions of the individuals that made them, and are not the opinions of other contributors, their employers, or anyone else.

• Jason Williams - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY

  • Bio sentence: Diversity advocate, founder CSHL Biological Data Science Meeting, Software Carpentry instructor and former foundation Chair, External consultant to NIH Data Commons, #underrepresentedinSTEM

• Rochelle E. Tractenberg - Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

  • Bio Sentence: psychometrician, biostatistician and research methodologist, specializing in developing and validating difficult-to-measure outcomes including those in biomedical research and in higher/graduate/post graduate education. Chair (2017-2019) Committee on Professional Ethics of the American Statistical Association.

• Bastian Greshake Tzovaras - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA

  • Bio sentence: Co-founder of openSNP, Director of Research at Open Humans and Visiting Scholar at the Berkeley Lab.

• Alexander (Sasha) Wait Zaranek - Harvard University, MA

  • Bio sentence: Co-Founder, Harvard Personal Genome Project (PGP) Chief Scientist, Curoverse Research Founder https://arvados.org, Head of Quantified Biology, Veritas Genetics

These are other responses to the RFI, posted here to represent the diversity of opinions and in the hopes of continuing the conversation. They are not related to the contribution in this repo, and are only the opinions of their respective authors.

• Hary Hochheiser et.al., University of Pittsburgh: link to document
• Dimitri Yatsenko, Vathes LLC/Baylor College of Medicine: link to document
• Michael Love, UNC Chapel Hill: link to document
• DJ Patel, Former U.S. Cheif Data Scientist: link to document
• Rafael Irizarry, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: link to document