You need an eRA Commons login not just to access BioData Catalyst, but also for applying for NIH grants. The below How-To resources are split up between Institutions, Principal Investigators, and Trainees. More tutorials are available at eRA Videos | eRA (nih.gov)
For institutions (Office of Sponsored Programs)
Your office of sponsored programs must have a signing officer who is able to sign off on grants to submit them. This person and their authorized assistants are the point of contact for creating eRA Commons ids for members of the institution.
Creating accounts for members of your institution The institution’s Signing Officer must create new accounts for individuals, or if an individual already has an eRA Commons ID, they can move the individual from their old institution to your current institution.
Contact your Office of Sponsored Programs to find out who your Signing Officer is. If anyone at your institution holds an NIH grant, there is probably already a Signing Officer at your institution.
Get in touch with the Signing Officer to help get your eRA Commons ID created. They may need the above resources if they are not familiar with creating ids.
If there is no office of sponsored programs, the financial officers of your institution may need to go through the above process for registering your institution with NIH.
If you’re in this situation, contact the BDC Helpdesk Contact | BDC (nih.gov) to ask for more assistance.
If you do have an ID, you can log in to the BioData Catalyst resources PIC-SURE, Gen3, and Seven Bridges directly with your eRA Commons ID.
During our workshop, some people created logins to Seven Bridges with gmail accounts. If this is you, you can contact support-sb@velsera.com to ask that your eRA Commons ID login and gmail-based login be merged. Make sure to tell support you are working on BioData Catalyst powered by Seven Bridges, give them your eRA Commons ID, and give them your gmail account id.
“Trainees” here is a catch-all term for undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs, and any other research technician who may be working under the guidance of a principal investigator (usually a professor).
If you do not have an eRA Commons ID:
Your supervisor (i.e., your Principal Investigator) should know who your signing officer is, but if not,contact your Office of Sponsored Programs to find out who your Signing Officer and Principal Investigators are.
The signing officer will create your eRA Commons ID.
If your institution does not have a signing officer registered with the NIH, your institution may still need to register itself. Work with your PI to get your institution registered, and contact the BDC Helpdesk if you need more assistance.
If you do have an ID, you can log in to the BioData Catalyst resources PIC-SURE, Gen3, and Seven Bridges directly with your eRA Commons ID.
During our workshop, some people created logins to Seven Bridges with gmail accounts. If this is you, you can contact support-sb@velsera.com to ask that your eRA Commons ID login and gmail-based login be merged. Make sure to tell support you are working on BioData Catalyst powered by Seven Bridges, give them your eRA Commons ID, and give them your gmail account id.
Work with your Principal Investigator to make and manage access requests.
Only Principal Investigators or Senior Scientists that are permanent employees of their institutions may apply for data access. Generally, this means tenure-track professors or another kind of senior investigator.
For Principal Investigators
After you have identified a dataset you would like access to, you need to fill out a dataset access request (DAR).
Before undertaking a data access request, make sure that you can sign in to dbGaP with your eRA Commons ID.
Once dataset access is granted, it takes about 48 hours for the permissions to propagate through the BioData Catalyst ecosystem.
If you want to link your controlled access data to BDC-Terra, see this tutorial
For Trainees
The principal investigator in charge of a project must have access to the dataset and then grant you access to download. Generally, this is your professor, but could be a PI at another institution.
Make sure that you can sign in to dbGaP with your eRA Commons id.
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eRA Commons Resources
You need an eRA Commons login not just to access BioData Catalyst, but also for applying for NIH grants. The below How-To resources are split up between Institutions, Principal Investigators, and Trainees. More tutorials are available at eRA Videos | eRA (nih.gov)
For institutions (Office of Sponsored Programs)
For Principal Investigators
For Trainees
“Trainees” here is a catch-all term for undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs, and any other research technician who may be working under the guidance of a principal investigator (usually a professor).
dbGaP Resources
Only Principal Investigators or Senior Scientists that are permanent employees of their institutions may apply for data access. Generally, this means tenure-track professors or another kind of senior investigator.
For Principal Investigators
After you have identified a dataset you would like access to, you need to fill out a dataset access request (DAR).
Once dataset access is granted, it takes about 48 hours for the permissions to propagate through the BioData Catalyst ecosystem.
If you want to link your controlled access data to BDC-Terra, see this tutorial
For Trainees
The principal investigator in charge of a project must have access to the dataset and then grant you access to download. Generally, this is your professor, but could be a PI at another institution.
Once you’ve been added, it will take 24 to 48 hours for the permissions to propagate through the BioData Catalyst ecosystem.
For BDC-Terra, follow these instructions
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