Contemporary biomedical and behavioral research has escalated the demand for access to data-intensive computational resources. While the United States’ investments in information technology assets has created a rich national fabric to accelerate research, the number of bioscience researchers without these tools is increasing. Through integrating secure, de-identified data for analysis, anonymization, and sharing, iDASH is narrowing the gap by extending its open-source, community-serving resources more broadly to biomedical, clinical, and informatics communities at universities, medical schools, and hospitals nationwide.

Created as a National Center for Biomedical Computing (NCBC) under the auspices of the NIH Roadmap for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, iDASH is a Biomedical Cyberinfrastructure (BCI) that provides innovative services, algorithms, open-source software, and data storage as well as training.