Information infrastructure (TRR 265, Project INF)
Reproducibility of research and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data principles are essential parts of good scientific practice. Research data and information management is one prerequisite of this. This CRC/TRR 265 will gather a wide variety of different data sets (e.g. questionnaires, behavioral tasks, mobile data, EEG, MRI, genetic, molecular) in humans and animals, in different labs at different sites, which also need to be analyzed across modalities, projects and sites. In addition, large participant samples need to be assessed, which will not only yield large amounts of data, but also necessitate infrastructure to manage recruitment and assessment of participants, as well as quality control of data. To facilitate collaborative work, a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) will be set up with tools to collect, manage, describe (metadata), archive and share the data between researchers and projects at the various sites participating in the CRC/TRR 265. The VRE will support quality control of the research data and will comprehensively address data safety and privacy issues. It will also allow access to and analysis of data - both manually by individual scientists and by automated analyses, e.g. on High Performance Computing (HPC) resources. Moreover, the system will facilitate sharing data with the scientific community (Open Data). We will refine and evaluate the system in close cooperation with the CRC/TRR 265 researchers, and will also train the scientists and other project participants in use of the VRE. The work of our project builds on existing methods and tools, in particular those developed and implemented in CRC 940"Volition and Cognitive Control" and CRC/TRR 205 "The Adrenal: Central Relay in Health and Disease".
Principle Investigators
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang E. Nagel, Technische Universität Dresden
Prof. Dr. Michael N. Smolka, Technische Universität Dresden
Staff
Alvaro Aguilera, Technische Universität Dresden
Dr. Ralph Müller-Pfefferkorn, Technische Universität Dresden
Jens Strehle, Technische Universität Dresden
Funding
402170461 – TRR 265