Contemporary biomedical and behavioral research increasingly demands 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. By integrating secure, patient-anonymous data for analysis, anonymization, and sharing, iDASH is narrowing the gap by extending its infrastructure, tools, and services more broadly to the national biomedical, clinical, and informatics communities at universities, medical schools, and hospitals.

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.