About

- Field of research: Biodiversity, Big Data
- Disciplines involved: Biodiversity, BioInformatics, Genomics
- Duration: 2019-2022
- Innovative activities: Create world-wide platforms following the FAIR principles for biodiversity and health big data deposition, integration and sharing OPEN BIODIVERSITY AND HEALTH BIG DATA (BHBD)
- Impacts on education: Facilitate the skills of data processing in member countries by international trainning course
- Questions/ issues addressed by the project :
- To build the principles and mechanisms for global sharing of BHBD in accordance with laws and ethics of member countries
- To develop a big data platform under the FAIR principles for BHBD integration, translation and sharing that is publicly accessible to worldwide communities
- Outcomes expected : Construct a global BHBD alliance and provide freely available biodiversity data to all facets of the scientific community.
- Leader(s): Yiming Bao
- Steering Committee: Amir Ali Abbasi (Pakistan), Suchinda Malaivijitnond (Thailand), Takashi Gojobori (Japan), Vladimir Bajic (South Africa), Vsevolod Makeev (Russia), Yiming Bao (USA), Yongbiao Xue (China)
- Website : http://bhbd-alliance.org/