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none"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; ">URGENT: Respond to the NIH RFI to maintain
Xenbase funding.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none">The National Institutes for Health (NIH) recently announced
a new Request for Information (RFI): Metrics to Assess Value of Biomedical
Digital Repositories. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none">Read the full requests on the NIH Website:
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-16-133.html">http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-16-133.html</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none">All responses must be submitted to: <a href="mailto:NIH_Repository_Metrics_RFI@mail.nih.gov">NIH_Repository_Metrics_RFI@mail.nih.gov</a>
<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none">Deadline: September
30, 2016. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none">Please include the Notice number NOT-OD-16-133 in the
subject line. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none">Biomedical Digital
Repository can be thought of in two general categories: <b>Knowledgebases</b>
and <b>Deposition Repositories</b>. Xenbase is a ‘<b>Knowledgebase</b>’
as it provides species-specific, curated findings derived from the aggregation
or analysis of a large body of published and unpublished (community submitted)
experimental data. <b>Deposition Repositories</b>, like GenBank/NCBI, support
primary research data submitted by the data producers. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The NIH
wants to understand and measure: 1) the<b> </b>value<b> </b>of Xenbase<b> </b>and
other data repositories, 2) the value of data types and data sets Xenbase and
other data repositories contain, and 3) how important these data repositories
are to your research. </p><p class="MsoNormal">We ask that you respond to this NIH RFI
<b>immediately</b> to express you support
for Xenbase, and explain how the data that Xenbase collates, curates and displays
supports your research. If Xenbase weren’t available, how
would that impact your work? What are the data sharing alternatives to the Xenbase?
What are the implications
of using these alternatives?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Thank you to all those who have already written to the NIH,
please encourage your colleagues to do so as well.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
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