NBIC BioAssist is establishing a new Interoperability Task Force (ITF)
03 Feb 2011
The ITF will develop a variety of methods and infrastructure solutions necessary for effectively connecting disparate life sciences databases. Alignment and integration of data and information sources is a significant effort repeatedly undertaken by companies, institutes, and academic laboratories.
The ITF held a kick off meeting on January 6, 2011. It generated significant interest from principal investigators within NBIC and beyond. Initially, the NBIC task force will focus on participating in the development of the Open PHACTS project. This project will focus on developing an open source and open access platform via a semantic web-based approach. The semantic integration hub, named the Open Pharmacological Space (OPS), will concentrate on the task of building coherent services guided by well-defined research questions assembled from the participating researchers. As the ITF gains momentum, facilitating data sharing between the different NBIC task forces such as Next Generation Sequencing and Biobanking will be a primary goal.
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