<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>NIH has extended the deadline for feedback on RFI: "Metrics to Assess Value of Biomedical Digital Repositories".</div><div><p>New Response Date: October 17, 2016</p><div><div class="text_exposed_show"><p>Please direct all inquiries to:</p><p>Elizabeth Hsu, PhD, MPH</p><p>National Cancer Institute</p><p>Submit your response via Email: <a href="mailto:hsuel@mail.nih.gov">hsuel@mail.nih.gov</a></p><p>Put NOT-OD-16-133 in subject line of your email.</p></div></div><p>text from NIH: <span class="text_exposed_show"><br>Please note that the receipt deadline for responses to this RFI has
been extended to October 17, 2016, to allow more time for individuals
and communities to assemble their responses. If you have input on this
important topic and have not submitted a response, please consider doing
so.</span></p><div class="text_exposed_show"><p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 14pt; text-align: justify; ">FYI: 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provides species-specific, curated findings derived from the aggregation or analysis of a large body of published and unpublished (community submitted) experimental data.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.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 14pt; text-align: justify; "><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></p><p><p>New Response Date: October 17, 2016</p><div><div class="text_exposed_show"></div></div></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p></div></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span><img height="48" width="256" id="d2345c2b-3568-4df7-a0a6-6258a4cb93b9" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:3393311928_31261500"></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; "><a href="http://www.xenbase.org">http://www.xenbase.org</a></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><br><div><div><div>If Xenbase contributes to your research, please cite us in you papers. <br></div><div>Cite us in your Materials and Methods section: <br></div><div> Xenbase (<a href="http://www.xenbase.org/">http://www.xenbase.org/</a>, RRID:SCR_003280)<br></div><div>Cite us in your references: <br></div><div> Karpinka et al. 2015, Nucleic Acids Research, 43(D1): D756-D763. <br></div><div> James-Zorn et al. 2015, genesis, 53:486-497.</div></div></div></div>
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