Sharing Your Data through the BDR

To further enable a collaborative research environment, the BDR accepts data generated by the biomedical research community and makes these data freely available, supporting NIH guidelines. Your participation will encourage scientific inquiry, enable new research exploration, and facilitate education by providing the scientific community with relevant, easily accessible data.

The NIH is actively encouraging data sharing through many avenues, including recently released Program Announcements (PAR-07-426; PAR-07-425) aimed in part to support sharing your data through the BDR.

Not only does the BDR enable the sharing of existing, published data, the BIRN also envisions the BDR as a mechanism to facilitate active collaborations that will lead to sharing.  An appropriate timeline for public release of your data, specific to the nature of your project, will be determined.

The BDR provides the means to capture, curate, store, query, view, and download imaging and related data. A rich curatorial environment, built on the BIRN portal foundation, underlies the data submission process and the subsequent sharing of the data.

To begin the first steps or to learn more about sharing your data through the BDR:

  • Submit inquiries or study information.

Your participation will help advance biomedical research and find answers to many of today’s most challenging questions. 

For more information related to the processes for data sharing and submission, please contact BDR Director Christine Fennema-Notestine, Ph.D., or Submissions Coordinator Andrea Arnaud through the Inquiry site or via BDR_info@nbirn.net.