Episode 4: How the Data Resource Center Uses the FAIR Principles to Increase Accessibility and Interoperability

Description

This month, join Dr. Allissa Dillman and guest Dr. Shankar Subramaniam, a PI of the Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) Data Resource Center (DRC), as they discuss the DRC role in integrating and making Common Fund data more accessible. They will highlight the CFDE Workbench, a robust information and data portal designed to help researchers access, analyze, and understand large datasets more effectively. They will also discuss how the DRC supports the FAIR data principles and shar tips for researchers using its tools. 

Guest Bio

Shankar Subramaniam is a Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Computer Science and Engineering and Nano Engineering. He is a pioneer in bioinformatics with his development of the Biology Workbench, the first of its kind in web-based infrastructures. He has fostered training and research in systems biology and bioinformatics at the national level, serving on the NIH Director’s Advisory Committee on Bioinformatics and played a key role in the formulation of the NIH Director’s Roadmap which places a major emphasis on the use of quantitative approaches of engineering to biomedical research in health and disease. He has been instrumental in raising national awareness of the roles of engineering approaches to biomedical research. In addition to inventing new methods for analysis of complex systems, he pioneered a novel technology for RNA sequencing with the smallest quantities of RNA leading to our ability to analyze human tissues at the microscale. His contributions to models of human disease are wide and profound and have strong implications for precision and personalized systems medicine.

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