Award
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences OTA-24-027
DOGSLED: Data, Ontologies, and Graphs Supporting Learning and Enhanced Discovery
Recipient
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Award Amount
$2,685,210.00
Ceiling
$2,685,210.00
Awarded
December 24, 2024
Identifier
OTA-24-027
This NIH grant funds the DOGSLED project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to advance the NCATS Biomedical Data Translator system. The project focuses on improving data integration, system performance, functionality, and transparency to accelerate biomedical research and discovery.
Description
The NCATS Biomedical Data Translator aims to augment human reasoning and accelerate scientific discovery through a federated system that integrates a broad range of biomedical data and knowledge, and reasons over them to answer translational science questions. The DOGSLED project will build on the Phase II system to improve breadth, integration, efficiency, explainability, usability, and sustainability of the Translator system. Planned improvements include creating a performant, scalable, reproducible Translator, expanding functionality, and making the system fully transparent to users. The project will significantly expand query capabilities, improve system performance, and increase user base.