The BioMed Interest Group

Biomedical research rarely fits neatly into a single discipline and often generates multiple, interrelated data types such as omics, imaging, immunological, and clinical data. Managing these data requires coordinated approaches to ensure FAIR and secure sharing. This is particularly important for sensitive genomic and health data. Containing personal and potentially identifying information requires robust protection, legal compliance, and ethical governance.
The NFDI BioMed Interest Group supports the biomedical research community by aligning standards, metadata and security concepts across domains. While users engage with individual consortia to access domain-specific services, the collaboration between the NFDI consortia provides orientation, training and support. This makes it easier to identify the right consortia for each data type and to manage complex projects without compromising data protection or interoperability.


GHGA

GHGA provides a secure and privacy-compliant infrastructure for human genomic and omics data, supporting FAIR data management and responsible sharing.

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NFDI4BIOIMAGE

NFDI4BIOIMAGE supports bioimage data management through open formats, flexible infrastructure and everyday data stewardship support.

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NFDI4Immuno

NFDI4Immuno provides a comprehensive data hub for immunology-related data with a focus on flow cytometry and adaptive immune receptor repertoire (AIRR)-seq data.

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NFDI4Health

NFDI4Health provides a technical infrastructure and efficient services that make personal health data findable and reusable.

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Interactions with other NFDI consortia

NFDI4Microbiota was founded in the 2nd application round in 2021. As microbiomes play an essential role in all aspects of life, this is also displayed in the strong connectivity of NFDI4Microbiota with many other NFDI consortia. Together with them, we work on shared topics.

Consortia of the 1st round

DataPLANT Data in PLANT research

  • Collaboration on metadata and workflows for omics data.
  • Collaboration on training.

GHGA the German Human Genome-Phenome Archive

  • Development of common standards and procedures for human microbiome data.

NFDI4BioDiversity: Biodiversity, Ecology & Environmental Data

  • Development of common metadata standards for sampling of microbial species/communities.

NFDI4Cat: NFDI for Catalysis-Related Sciences

NFDI4Chem: Chemistry Consortium in the NFDI

  • Collaboration regarding Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs).

NFDI4Health: National Research Data Infrastructure for Personal Health Data

  • Standardization of chemical components such as medication, dietary factors, and metabolomics data.
  • Exchange regarding the inclusion of microbiome-related data in medical studies.

NFDI4Ing: National Research Data Infrastructure for Engineering Sciences

  • Collaboration regarding biotechnology-related data.
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Consortia of the 2nd round

NFDI4DataScience: NFDI for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

  • Development of solutions for Linked Open Data (LOD) and Open Research Knowledge Graphs (ORKG).

NFDI4Earth: NFDI Consortium Earth System Sciences

PUNCH4NFDI: Particles, Universe, NuClei, and Hadrons for the NFDI

Consortia of the 3rd round

FAIRagro: NFDI for Agricultural Sciences

  • Development of common metadata standards for the sampling of microbial species/communities.

NFDI4BIOIMAGE: NFDI4 Biological Imaging and Medical Photonics

  • Collaboration on standards and workflows regarding imaging data from biological samples.

NFDI4Immuno: National Research Data Infrastructure for Immunology

  • Development of solutions for the parallel analysis of microbiota and the immune system.
  • Harmonization of metadata and ontologies describing the host, as well as identification and enhancement of formalized descriptions of sampling procedures.

BASE4NFDI: Basic Services for NFDI