RTI International, https://www.rti.org a nonprofit research institute, has been selected by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), https://nhibi.nih.gov within NIH to support data managements for the BioData Catalyst platform in a $5.4 million three year contract.
Karen Davis, VP for Research Computing at RTI BioData Catalyst, will co-lead the project with Dr. Anne Thessen, visiting Professor, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, plus experts from RTI, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Chicago.
The NHLBI’s BioData Catalyst is a cloud-based ecosystem providing tools, applications, and workflows in secure workspaces. The ecosystem is a dynamic resource that enables researchers to find, access, share, store, and compute on large scale datasets. RTI will serve as the Data Management Core (DMC) for BioData Catalyst and work to enter new data into the platform.
The RTI team will work on expanding BioData Catalyst’s ability to ingest multiple datasets of varied data types, including EHRs, research clinic surveys and assessments, genotypes, and molecular and laboratory imaging.