Data & informatics

News and Updates

Multiple airplanes on the tarmac. Some are surrounded by a green box and others by a red X.

Spotlight: The Challenge to Detect Stealthy Attacks Against AI Data

September 5, 2023

What if someone were to manipulate the data used to train AI? NIST is collaborating on a competition to get ahead of potential threats like this.

NIST Researchers Demonstrate Improved Way of Training Distributed Digital Devices

May 1, 2023

Distributed digital devices – such as smart phones and more – are updated and trained by means of “Federated Learning.” Basically, it involves a central server

NIST Hosts Annual Meeting on Future Internet Architecture

March 1, 2023

NIST conducted the Named Data Networking (NDN) Community Meeting 2023 in Gaithersburg, MD at its National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence and online, on 2-3

Events

TREC/TRECVID/TAC 2023

Mon, Nov 13 - Fri, Nov 17 2023

Announcing the first hybrid collaboration for NIST leaders in Retrieval Technology. All are invited to attend the

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

A digital object is composed of Data, Metadata, Protocols & Operations, and Persistent Identifiers.

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 dedicated to authoritative characterization of benchmark human genomes. Sign up for General GIAB and Analysis Team email lists. Public

Publications

Quantifying Pairwise Similarity for Complex Polymers

September 6, 2023

Author(s)

Jiale Shi, Nathan Rebello, Dylan Walsh, Michael Deagen, Bruno Salomao Leao, Debra Audus, Bradley Olsen

Defining the similarity between chemical entities is an essential task in polymer informatics, enabling ranking, clustering, and classification. Despite its

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ONTOLOGY STANDARDS AND THEIR APPLICABILITY TO BIOMANUFACTURING

July 14, 2023

Author(s)

Milos Drobnjakovic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Simon P. Frechette, Vijay Srinivasan

ISO and IEC have jointly initiated, and recently issued, a series of standards (the ISO/IEC 21838 series) for top-level ontologies. These standards have been

A Generic STS Viewer on the Web

June 13, 2023

Author(s)

Wendell Piez

In an alternate universe, XML (1998) and XSLT 1.0 (1999) were not developed so early, and did not have to wait for the rest of the web to catch up. In ours, it

Integrating theory with machine learning for predicting polymer solution phase behavior

May 31, 2023

Author(s)

Jeffrey Ethier, Debra Audus, Devin Ryan, Richard Vaia

Flory-Huggins (FH) theory is foundational to understanding macro-phase separation in polymer solutions; however, its predictions often quantitatively disagree

Software

The NIST Data Alignment Tool

August 12, 2022

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

hotograph of the custom high temperature (>300 K) scanning instrument that measures electrical resistivity and Seebeck coefficient

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

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

Data & informatics

Data and informatics Topics

News and Updates

Spotlight: The Challenge to Detect Stealthy Attacks Against AI Data

NIST Researchers Demonstrate Improved Way of Training Distributed Digital Devices

NIST Hosts Annual Meeting on Future Internet Architecture

Events

TREC/TRECVID/TAC 2023

Projects and Programs

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

Research Data Framework (RDaF)

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

Genome in a Bottle

Publications

Quantifying Pairwise Similarity for Complex Polymers

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ONTOLOGY STANDARDS AND THEIR APPLICABILITY TO BIOMANUFACTURING

A Generic STS Viewer on the Web

Integrating theory with machine learning for predicting polymer solution phase behavior

Software

The NIST Data Alignment Tool

Extreme Winds and Wind Effects on Structures

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

RECIPE

Tools and Instruments

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

Awards

Ellen Voorhees Wins Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award

Aaron Gilad Kusne Named APS Fellow

Robert Hanisch Honored as Fellow of the American Astronomical Society