The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is seeking suggestions for experts to participate in a new Initiative advancing a vision for a future-oriented, resilient, and accessible biodata ecosystem. As biological and biomedical datasets from –omics information and imaging to AI-enabled analytics grow in scale, complexity, and importance, ensuring their long-term effectiveness and sustainability has become more challenging and more urgent. This multisector effort will bring together stakeholders across academia, industry, government, philanthropy, and nonprofit organizations to advance best practices, explore innovative models, and pilot approaches to strengthen long-term database resilience and sustainability. We seek both senior and emerging leaders and experts from the United States and internationally to collectively make progress toward shaping the next generation of life sciences data resources.
Expertise is sought in the following areas:
- Strategic vision for the future biomedical and life sciences research ecosystem
- Biological database lifecycle management, curation, and sunsetting
- Next-generation biodata needs and uses, including for AI/ML-enabled applications
- Cyberinfrastructure, interoperability, and data security
- Creative and sustainable funding and infrastructure business models
- Research policy and data governance, privacy, ethics, and security
- Other expertise important to the Initiative's task