Researchers across NIAID use data science to accelerate research into understanding, treating, and preventing infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases. Learn more about data science research at each of the offices and centers listed below.
Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch
The Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB) Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB) serves as a centralized resource for data science and emerging technologies. BCBB utilizes cutting-edge techniques like machine learning and network analysis to support, enable, and advance biomedical discovery for NIAID researchers and collaborators.
Integrated Data Sciences Section
The Research Technologies Branch (RTB) Integrated Data Sciences Section (IDSS) provides scientific consultation, training and workshops, computational and data science support, and technology collaboration. IDSS works with NIAID investigators to provide bioinformatics, data science, and computational biology expertise at all project stages, from experimental design through manuscript preparation.
Office of Biostatistics Research
The Office of Biostatistics Research (OBR) provides statistical support to NIAID intramural and extramural programs. OBR oversees the Biostatistics Research Branch, the Clinical Trials Research and Statistics Branch, and the Mathematical Biology Section. Together these groups engage in collaborative research with NIAID scientists, develop new statistical methods and mathematical models, coordinate biostatistics grants, and provide statistical oversight in research design.
Office of Data Science and Emerging Technologies
The Office of Data Science and Emerging Technologies (ODSET) coordinates the development and implementation of NIAID’s data science strategy across its entire global portfolio of research and training programs. The overall goal of the office is to enable the efficient use of data and computational methods to better understand, treat, and ultimately prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases.
Office of Genomics and Advanced Technologies
Advanced technologies research fields, such as genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics, hold great promise for developing new diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines to treat and prevent infectious and immune-mediated diseases. Sophisticated tools are being used to determine the genetic make-up of disease-causing pathogens, to analyze discrepancies among pathogen strains, and to evaluate how immune system responses differ.