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Related Announcements

NOT-OD-23-044 - Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Support for existing data repositories to align with FAIR and TRUST principles and evaluate usage, utility, and impact

PA-20-272 - Administrative Supplements to Existing NIH Grants and Cooperative Agreements (Parent Administrative Supplement Clinical Trial Optional)None

Issued by

National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)

Purpose

This Notice announces the participation of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in NOT-OD-23-044 – “Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Support for existing data repositories to align with FAIR and TRUST principles and evaluate usage, utility, and impact,” effective immediately. The goal of this NOSI is to better enable data discoverability, interoperability, and reuse by aligning with the FAIR and TRUST principles and by using metrics to measure their effectiveness. This NOSI provides an opportunity for existing repositories to increase “FAIR”-ness and “TRUST”-worthiness to improve their usage, utility, and impact throughout the data resource lifecycle.

The NHGRI 2020 Vision for improving human health at the forefront of genomics highlights genomic data science is an essential part of sustaining and improving a robust foundation for genomics. The scale of genomic data and the commitment of researchers and the NIH to open science and responsible sharing of digital data resources necessitate continual advances in genomic data processing, storage, organization, and access. For the purposes of this notice, NHGRI is interested in providing support for existing NIH-supported repositories to improve their adoption of the FAIR and TRUST principles and to develop ways to measure their effectiveness to the research communities they serve.

Inquiries

Please direct all inquiries to:

Sandhya Xirasagar Ph.D.
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
Tel.: 240 380 0400
Email: xirasasa@nih.gov