A leader in developing informatics infrastructure and tools to make biomedical research data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.
About the Lab Our ProjectsFAIR principles guide scientific data management and stewardship so that data can be maximally reused by humans and machines alike.
Data and metadata are assigned persistent, globally unique identifiers and are indexed in searchable resources.
Data are retrievable by their identifier using open, standardized protocols with clear access conditions.
Data use formal, accessible, shared, and broadly applicable language for knowledge representation.
Data have rich metadata, a clear license, and meet domain-relevant community standards to support replication.
We develop technology, services, and policy to improve accuracy, reproducibility, and analysis in biomedical research. Our work spans data portals, ontologies, persistent identifiers, and cross-database search infrastructure.
Learn more →Founded in 2008 as the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF), an NIH Blueprint Consortium initiative, FDI Lab expanded into a multi-domain platform powering portals across digestive, diabetes, kidney, spinal cord, and brain research.
Read our story →We are a multidisciplinary team at UC San Diego working at the intersection of biology, computer science, and library science. Interested in joining us?
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