Standards, Practices, and Quality Assessment

Charter: To capture community needs and aggregate standards requirements and specifications, coordinate the implementation of standards, and enable sharing and reuse. The WG will facilitate transparent benchmarking, quality control, standards compliance, and efficient dissemination of data and supporting artifacts by promoting and enabling open source and collaborative development of best practices and norms in adopting standards.

The Bridge2AI Standards, Practices, and Quality Assessment working group aims to develop best practices for data collection, deposition, quality assurance, query, dissemination, and integration across Bridge2AI Grand Challenges. We will ensure that the standards used across these projects: are as generalizable as possible in other biomedical and behavioral applications; produce reproducible, credible outputs useful to the wider scientific community; and are updated in an efficient and well-provenanced manner. To achieve this, we will:

  1. capture community needs and aggregate standards requirements and specifications, and
  2. coordinate implementation of standards and enable sharing and reuse.

Our approach will enable transparent benchmarking, quality control, standards compliance, and efficient dissemination of data and supporting artifacts by promoting and enabling open source and collaborative development of best practices and norms in the adoption of standards.

Development, refinement, evaluation, and dissemination of Bridge2AI community-driven standards. Continuous community engagement is required to define standards requirements (1). We plan to catalog standards, use cases, and validation rules (2); provide web applications to enable users to explore schemas and elements (3); enable modality-agnostic, extensible standards specification (4); deploy a Dashboard to evaluate use of, and compliance with standards (5); and develop protocols & tools for data transformation (6). Our Concierge services facilitate the users’ understanding of how to leverage, design, or incorporate resources; these include open, regular interactions with the wider Bridge2AI community through office hours, help desk activities, issue tracking systems, among other activities.

Illustration of Standards Core Life Cycle

Who We Are

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Monica Munoz Torres, PhD
Lead
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Chris Chute, PhD
Co-Lead
John Hopkins University
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James Eddy, PhD
Co-Lead
Sage Bionetworks
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Chris Mungall, PhD
Co-Lead
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Alex Wagner, PhD
Co-Lead
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
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Melissa Haendel, PhD, FACMI
Co-Lead
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Harry Caufield
Data Scientist
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Corey Cox
Programmer Analyst
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Mialy DeFelice
Bioinformatics Engineer
Sage Bionetworks
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Joseph Flack
Software Engineer
Johns Hopkins University
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Davera Gabriel
Senior Research Terminologist
Johns Hopkins University
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Sarah Gehrke
Project Manager
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Wesley Goar
Bioinformatics Scientist
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
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Nomi Harris
Project Manager
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Stephanie Hong
Senior Healthcare Informatics Analyst
Johns Hopkins University
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Gianna Jordan
Research Software Engineer
Sage Bionetworks
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Kori Kuzma
Software Developer
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
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Julie McMurry
Co-Investigator
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Milen Nikolov
Co-Investigator
Sage Bionetworks
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Kathryn Stahl
Software Developer
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
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Anne Thessen
Co-Investigator
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus