1. Building a collaborative cloud platform to accelerate heart, lung, blood, and sleep research
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Stan Ahalt, Paul Avillach, Rebecca Boyles, Kira Bradford, Steven Cox, Brandi Davis-Dusenbery, Robert L Grossman, Ashok Krishnamurthy, Alisa Manning, Benedict Paten, Anthony Philippakis, Ingrid Borecki, Shu Hui Chen, Jon Kaltman, Sweta Ladwa, Chip Schwartz, Alastair Thomson, Sarah Davis, Alison Leaf, Jessica Lyons, Elizabeth Sheets, Joshua C Bis, Matthew Conomos, Alessandro Culotti, Thomas Desain, Jack Digiovanna, Milan Domazet, Stephanie Gogarten, Alba Gutierrez-Sacristan, Tim Harris, Ben Heavner, Deepti Jain, Brian O'Connor, Kevin Osborn, Danielle Pillion, Jacob Pleiness, Ken Rice, Garrett Rupp, Arnaud Serret-Larmande, Albert Smith, Jason P Stedman, Adrienne Stilp, Teresa Barsanti, John Cheadle, Christopher Erdmann, Brandy Farlow, Allie Gartland-Gray, Julie Hayes, Hannah Hiles, Paul Kerr, Chris Lenhardt, Tom Madden, Joanna O Mieczkowska, Amanda Miller, Patrick Patton, Marcie Rathbun, Stephanie Suber, and Joe Asare
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Health Informatics - Abstract
Research increasingly relies on interrogating large-scale data resources. The NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute developed the NHLBI BioData CatalystⓇ (BDC), a community-driven ecosystem where researchers, including bench and clinical scientists, statisticians, and algorithm developers, find, access, share, store, and compute on large-scale datasets. This ecosystem provides secure, cloud-based workspaces, user authentication and authorization, search, tools and workflows, applications, and new innovative features to address community needs, including exploratory data analysis, genomic and imaging tools, tools for reproducibility, and improved interoperability with other NIH data science platforms. BDC offers straightforward access to large-scale datasets and computational resources that support precision medicine for heart, lung, blood, and sleep conditions, leveraging separately developed and managed platforms to maximize flexibility based on researcher needs, expertise, and backgrounds. Through the NHLBI BioData Catalyst Fellows Program, BDC facilitates scientific discoveries and technological advances. BDC also facilitated accelerated research on the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
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- 2023
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