The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives.
The Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) aims to support the development of early-stage or new data repositories or knowledgebases that are of value to the biomedical research community. Its broad goals include supporting pilot activities that showcase the need and potential impact of such data resources, transitioning resources from investigator-initiated efforts to quality controlled, standards-based operations, and consolidating existing data repositories or knowledgebases. The program emphasizes the importance of delivering scientific impact, employing good data management practices in line with the FAIR Data Principles, engaging with user communities to continuously meet their needs, and supporting data life-cycle analysis, long-term preservation, and trustworthy governance. The evaluation of applicants will focus on their ability to ingest, archive, preserve, manage, distribute, and make accessible biomedical data (for data repositories) or to extract, accumulate, organize, annotate, and link information related to core datasets (for knowledgebases), along with public documentation of services, quality service provision, demonstrated utility and usage of the data/services, community engagement, and governance.