BRAIN Initiative: Integration and Analysis of BRAIN Initiative Data (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Agency:
- National Institutes of Health
This NOFO supports the development of software to visualize and analyze the data as part of programs of building the informatics infrastructure for the BRAIN Initiative. Other informatics programs include developing data standards that are needed to describe the new experiments that are being created by or used in the BRAIN Initiative (RFA-MH-20-128), and creating the data infrastructures that will house the data from multiple experimental groups (RFA-MH-20-600). Each of the programs is aimed at building an infrastructure that is used by a particular sub-domain of experimentalists rather than building a single all-encompassing informatics infrastructure now. Building the infrastructure one experimental area at a time will ensure that the infrastructure is immediately useful to components of the research community. As our understanding of the brain improves, it may be possible to create linkages between these various sub-domain specific informatics programs. Investigators of the informatics programs should keep that goal in mind and build for the future even though the current efforts are more limited in scope.
The data visualization and analysis tools supported under this NOFO will make use of relevant data standards and will be built so that they can be integrated into the data repositories, both of which are created in awards under the other NOFOs of the BRAIN initiative informatics program. Similarly, the data repositories will have the needed infrastructure to implement the software developed under this NOFO. Awardees under all the BRAIN Initiative informatics NOFOs are expected to work together. The awardees should budget for hackathons and other collaborative efforts that will be necessary to integrate the products produced by all awardees. Collaborations with neuro-informatics efforts outside of the BRAIN Initiative are both welcome and are encouraged.
This NOFOcan be used to support several different, but related activities. These include modifying existing analysis and visualization tools to deal with BRAIN Initiative data and integrating different types of BRAIN Initiative datasets. Proposing the development of new tools to deal with BRAIN Initiative data is also permitted. The tools must make use of relevant standards.
Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
June 09, 2023; October 13, 2023
Ming Zhan, Ph.D., National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Telephone: 301-827-3678
Email: ming.zhan@nih.gov