Repositive joins partnership to support development of NIH data pilot

Cambridge-based start-up, Repositive, has partnered with US data experts to support the development of the NIH Data Commons Pilot Phase — designed to transform the storage and analysis of public biomedical data.

The partnership, FAIR4CURES, is being led by Seven Bridges, a Cambridge Massachusetts biomedical data analysis company, which will contribute its technology from its cloud platform for genome analysis and workflow management. Repositive will contribute its expertise in metadata indexing and data source aggregation and search to provide an internal and external data search capability for the NIH Data Commons, addressing the needs of both biologists and data analysts.

Joining Seven Bridges and Repositive in the collaboration will also be the Boston Veteran Affairs Research Institute, which created the Million Veteran Program, and will provide expertise in research data governance, and the data team from Elsevier, the informatics analytics business specialising in science and health, which will contribute its technology for publishing data objects with globally unique identifiers.

“We are delighted to work alongside our experienced data partners in FAIR4CURES as well as the broader NIH research community,” said Fiona Nielsen, Founder and CEO of Repositive. “With the search capabilities and community-driven workflows of the Repositive platform, we will provide the data visibility and metadata organisation to the NIH data commons that is a pre-requisite for making data both findable and reusable.”