Project description
A boost for the Global Biodata Coalition
The life sciences have entered an era of Big Data, where breakthroughs in genomics, proteomics, and drug discovery depend on high-quality digital repositories. However, infrastructure fragility threatens this progress. Most of the world’s critical biological databases are born out of short-term research grants. To tackle this issue, the Global Biodata Coalition (GBC) was established in 2020 to promote collaboration and develop strategies for the long-term sustainability of biodata resources. The EU-funded GBC 2026-2030 project aims to advance the GBC. It will expand the coordinating secretariat to enhance engagement with funding organisations and consolidate efforts with biodata infrastructure providers. This initiative unites communities to explore and implement new sustainability models.
Objective
Life science research is increasingly data-intensive. Biodata resources that collate, curate, analyse and distribute research data across biological scales, disciplines and fields are used universally and globally. New technologies and the exponential growth of these resources create huge opportunities. Despite the critical and essential nature of this infrastructure, it lacks sustainability: it relies financially on research grants from single funding organisations, making them vulnerable to priority changes. The lack of strategic coordination between data resources and research funders has led to fragility for individual resources and the global infrastructure as a whole.
A number of funding organisations established the Global Biodata Coalition (GBC) to address sustainability. Since 2020, this group has engaged stakeholders to better characterise the global biodata infrastructure, understand sustainability needs, and formulate approaches to its attainment. The GBC to date offers a rich and essential foundation to support engagement, planning and implementation across funding organisations and biodata resources, needed for longer term sustainability.
This new project will build on these foundations to build the GBC in its next stage of development, which is urgently required. It will establish new governance structures for a growing GBC, with a major focus on developing a community of biodata infrastructure funders, over and above the existing (international) cooperation mechanisms. This will be driven by expanding the coordinating secretariat to reinvigorate and substantially broaden engagement with existing and potential funding organisations. This proposal will consolidate and extend work with the providers of biodata infrastructure and, critically, bring these two communities together to explore, pilot and implement new sustainability models and actions to achieve the greatest sustainability of the global biodata infrastructure.
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HORIZON.2.1 - Health
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HORIZON.2.1.5 - Tools, Technologies and Digital Solutions for Health and Care, including personalised medicine
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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-HLTH-2025-05-IBA
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69117 Heidelberg
Germany
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