Creating healthy research data ecosystems in the cloud

The rise in global usage of Gen3 to manage, analyse and share research data called for the creation of an international community to share knowledge. BioCommons partnered with the Center for Translational Data Science, University of Chicago, USA late last year to co-host the inaugural Gen3 Community Forum, and the first event of 2023 will take place online 2 Mar 2023 (or 1 March for our US colleagues!).

How to Set Up a Gen3 Data Commons Using Helm Charts will provide guidance in standing up, configuring, and maintaining your own Gen3 Data Commons in multiple clouds by using Helm Charts. The tool streamlines the installation and management of Kubernetes applications, which is a system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

The Gen3 platform consists of open-source software services that support the emergence of healthy data ecosystems by enabling the interoperation and creation of cloud-based data resources, including data commons and analysis workspaces. Gen3 aims to accelerate and democratise the process of scientific discovery by making it easy to manage, analyse, harmonise, and share large and complex datasets in the cloud.

Gen3 is now a key component over 15 data commons by organisations including several NIH Institutes and Centers in the USA. Working with the Gen3 team BioCommons is supporting the creation of several data commons for Australian research consortia.

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