BioData Catalyst Coordinating Center (BDC3)

The BioData Catalyst Coordinating Center coordinates project management, communications, project reporting, and collaboration standards for the NHLBI BioData Catalyst project. BioData Catalyst is a cloud-based ecosystem providing tools, applications, and workflows in secure workspaces.

In partnership with RTI International, RENCI facilitates coordination among the partners and platforms powering the NHLBI BioData Catalyst ecosystem.

By increasing access to NHLBI datasets and innovative data analysis capabilities, BioData Catalyst accelerates efficient biomedical research that drives discovery and scientific advancement, leading to novel diagnostic tools, therapeutics and prevention strategies for heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders. The ecosystem is a dynamic resource that allows researchers to find, access, share, store, and compute on large scale datasets.

Though the primary goal of the BioData Catalyst project is to build a data science platform, at its core, this is a people-centric endeavor. The Coordinating Center is in place to support BioData Catalyst as a community working to collaboratively solve technical and scientific challenges.

• Broad Institute
• Harvard Medical School
• NHLBI Informatics Research Center
• RTI International
• Seven Bridges Genomics, Inc.
• TOPMed Data Coordinating Center
• UNC-Chapel Hill
• University of California Santa Cruz
• University of Chicago
• Vanderbilt University Medical Center

• NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute