The multi-project submission portal, which was built upon GeneLab’s existing infrastructure, expands the utility and scope of the system. Standards such as Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and the ISA framework continue to be key features across the BDME. Adopting the ISA framework, a standard for organizing and managing life sciences and biomedical experimental data, researchers will be guided in the submission process to deposit biological data according to established metadata and data standards. Additional functionality in BDME includes an online tool to guide NASA funded researchers through their Research Data Submission Agreement (RDSA) to improve data submission planning. The RDSA form guides NASA investigators through the process of defining data products, assays, and/or tissues for submission to a NASA data repository. The RDSA helps guide investigators including Space Biology and Human Research Program solicitation awardees, PI Self-Forming BSP Team Collaborators and NBISC biospecimen and material requestors with submission of their data to NASA and helps investigators meet the obligations of their Space NASA grants.
The Open Science Data Repositories expand scientists' access to space-related experiments that explore the biological response of terrestrial biology to spaceflight environments. To enable data accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of biological data from space-related experiments NASA integrated two biological databases, Ames Life Sciences Data Archive (ALSDA) and GeneLab, into a centralized data system. The Ames Life Sciences Data Archive (ALSDA) is the official repository of non-human science data spanning a broad range of biological levels involving data from tissues, organs, whole organisms, physiology, and behavior. GeneLab is an open science multi-omics repository hosting transcriptomics, metagenomics, epigenomics, proteomics, and metabolomics data. Studies comprise of data from model organisms including microbes, plants, fruit flies, rodents, and humans.
This new user interface allows easy search capabilities, descriptive metadata for each data type, and files for download. In addition, data types are linked across each page allowing users to have navigate across common fields. Come explore the new Open Science database and submission portal here: https://osdr.nasa.gov.
