Project Goals

The specific aims of this project are:

1. To build an extensible portal for sharing data and tools, supporting both public and private group collaborations of geographically distributed biologists.
2. To enable information interoperability by creating new community data schemas and tools for sharing data in the MS3D domain, taking advantage of existing and emerging standards and technologies, where possible.
3. To modify existing tools that generate and analyze data to enable the creation and storage of new MS3D metadata in a format that allows interoperability with other tools and collaboratory functions; and to create new tools as the portal and data schemas mature.
4. To research and develop methods for automating the capture of data provenance and workflow, towards the goal of a comprehensive knowledge management system.
5. To demonstrate the impact and effectiveness of the portal to enable new science by piloting these developments with collaborating scientists in the MS3D community.

The Collaboratory for MS3D (C-MS3D)
is sponsored by the
National Institutes of Health
and the National Science Foundation