German Federation for the Curation of Biological Data (GFBio)

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The German Federation for Biological Data (GFBio) aims to set up a sustainable, service oriented, national data infrastructure facilitating data sharing and stimulating data intensive science in the fields of biological and environmental research. GFBio follows a holistic approach including technical, organizational, cultural, and policy aspects. The development of the infrastructure is essentially based on the collective experience and expertise of leading researchers from multiple disciplines as well as on a network of complementary and professional data facilities in the biological and environmental sciences communities, including PANGAEA, major German natural history collection data repositories, and selected facilities from the molecular biology research community. GFBio is projected for three phases setting out the way from development to management of services. The current, preparatory phase focusses on conceptualizing and prototyping GFBio components such as the archive backbone and the service platform. Phase II will concentrate on implementation and the last phase on consolidation of the infrastructure.