BioData Catalyst

BDC is a cloud-based ecosystem offering researchers data, analytical tools, applications, and workflows in secure workspaces where researchers can find, acc...

The NHLBI Supplement to the NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing (effective May 25, 2023) encourages submission of data resulting from NHLBI-funded re...

BDC users are not charged for storing datasets hosted in the ecosystem; however, when hosted data are used in analyses, users incur costs for the computatio...

BDC hosts datasets from heart, lung, and blood research, including data on COVID-19, sickle cell disease, and the Pediatric Genomics Consortium and the stud...

BDC provides general information about accessing hosted data on the Explore Data in BDC webpage and, from there, links to several resources helpful for gett...

Users can explore and query open and controlled-access data at the summary level within BDC without an approved Data Access Request (DAR). Neither an eRA Co...

Researchers with eRA Commons accounts can check their data access through a button available in the Accessing Hosted Data section of the Explore Data in BDC...

Researchers who do not have approved DARs for the controlled data they want to use should read the dbGaP section of the Understanding Access page in the BDC...

Access to data is controlled by the NHLBI Data Access Committee (DAC), which uses the database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP) permissions infrastructur...

Principal Investigators (PIs) with approved DARs can give lab staff access to the data hosted in BDC by giving their lab staff "designated downloader s...