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Modernizing iEdison: Upgrading the Database for Reporting Inventions

November 4, 2021

The iEdison platform was designed in the 1990’s by the National Institute of Health as a means for awardees of federal funding to report their inventions

Face Recognition Software Shows Improvement in Recognizing Masked Faces

December 1, 2020

A new study of face recognition technology created after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic shows that some software developers have made demonstrable progress

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Providing NIST Guest Researchers with the Tools they Need

October 13, 2020

NIST is made up of a wide array of professionals from many different backgrounds, from science and engineering to communications, information technology, and

Projects and Programs

Trusted AI framework for a new class of Standard Reference Materials and Data with exquisitely characterized uncertainty for billions of properties

Ongoing

A new collaboration between NIST's Human Genomics Team, Mass Spectrometry Data Center, and Information Technology Laboratory to use and develop artificial

This research data lifecycle has six stages: Envision; Plan; Generate/Acquire; Process/Analyze; Share/Use/Reuse; and Preserve/Discard

Research Data Framework (RDaF)

Ongoing

In the past decade, research data have become widely recognized as a critical national and global resource, and the risks of losing or mismanaging research data

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Facilitating the Adoption of the FAIR Digital Object Framework in Material Science

Ongoing

With increasing use of data-driven methodologies, concerns around data discovery, data access, and data interoperability have come to the forefront. Communities

Genome in a Bottle

Ongoing

Consortium hosted by NIST and JIMB dedicated to authoritative characterization of benchmark human genomes. Sign up for General GIAB and Analysis Team email

Publications

Challenges of Accuracy in Germline Clinical Sequencing Data

July 20, 2021

Author(s)

Justin Zook, Ryan Poplin, Mark DePristo

Physicians are increasingly using clinical sequencing tests to establish diagnoses of patients who might have genetic disorders, which means that accuracy of

Mapping employee networks through the NIST Interactions Survey

June 21, 2021

Author(s)

Laura Espinal, Camila Young, Justyna Zwolak

As we begin to adopt approaches to help the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) become a more inclusive organization, we need a way to

Multiplatform Standards and Guidelines Publishing at NIST

May 20, 2021

Author(s)

Kathryn Miller

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is a nonregulatory agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. One of the agency's responsibilities is to

A Controlled Vocabulary and Metadata Schema for Materials Science Data Discovery

April 29, 2021

Author(s)

Andrea M. Medina-Smith, Chandler Becker, Raymond L. Plante, Laura Bartolo, Alden A. Dima, James A. Warren, Robert Hanisch

The International Materials Resource Registries (IMRR) working group of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) was created to spur initial development of a federated

Software

The NIST Data Alignment Tool

June 18, 2019

The Data Alignment Tool (DAT) was built to assist with the analysis of data used in testing fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) tools and building

Extreme Winds and Wind Effects on Structures

The Engineering Laboratory has an established long-term collaboration with the NIST Statistical Engineering Division in the analysis of extreme wind speeds and

Curated Archive for COVID-19 Research Challenge Dataset (cord19-cdcs-nist)

This GitHub repository contains a downloadable snapshot of National Institute of Standards and Technology's COVID-19 Data Repository, curated from the COVID-19

RECIPE

RECIPE is a FORTRAN program for determining one-sided tolerance limits (in particular, A- and B-basis material property values) for regression models in the

Tools and Instruments

High Throughput (Combinatorial) Screening Tool for Characterization of Thin Film Thermoelectrics as a Function Temperature

High-throughput (combinatorial) metrologies have evolved as a useful approach to rapidly determine the composition-structure-property relationships for novel

Awards

Aaron Gilad Kusne Named APS Fellow

For pioneering work on applications of machine learning for automated delineation of materials phase diagrams, and for the development of

Robert Hanisch Honored as Fellow of the American Astronomical Society

AAS Fellows are recognized for their contributions toward the AAS mission of enhancing and sharing humanity's scientific understanding of

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