Award
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences 1OT2TR005712-01
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
1OT2TR005712-01
This award funds the DOGSLED project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to enhance the NCATS Biomedical Data Translator system, improving data integration, reasoning capabilities, and user engagement to accelerate translational science 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. Planned improvements include centralizing data ingest and processing, supporting new query types including natural language queries, and making the system fully transparent by tracking provenance. The project also aims to expand the user base through engagement and outreach.