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Published July 13, 2026 | Version v1
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Biodata Interest Group Workshop Report: Strategic Alignment and Infrastructure Integration

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Gesellschaft fuer Biologische Daten e.V. GFBio
  • 2. ROR icon Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
  • 3. ROR icon ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences
  • 4. ROR icon TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences
  • 5. ROR icon University of Bremen
  • 6. ROR icon Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
  • 7. ROR icon Constructor University
  • 8. ROR icon Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Zentrale
  • 9. ROR icon Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
  • 10. ROR icon University of Freiburg
  • 11. ROR icon Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
  • 12. ROR icon University of Münster
  • 13. ROR icon Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research
  • 14. ROR icon Klassik Stiftung Weimar
  • 15. ROR icon University of Kaiserslautern
  • 16. ROR icon Philipps University of Marburg
  • 17. ROR icon German Cancer Research Center
  • 18. ROR icon TU Dresden

Description

The NFDI—German National Research Data Infrastructure—consortia DataPLANT, FAIRagro, NFDI4Biodiversity, NFDI4BIOIMAGE, NFDI4Microbiota, and NFDI4Objects convened on April 15–16, 2026, at the Julius Kühn Institute in Berlin for the Biodata Interest Group workshop. The workshop served to operationalize the group's Memorandum of Understanding by identifying synergies in services, training, and infrastructure. Workshop discussions facilitated the exchange of perspectives on a potential strategic roadmap for 2026–2035, the exploration of functional data modalities for cross-consortial integration, and the identification of areas for future coordination to support a more sustainable and collaborative research data infrastructure in the biological sciences.

This report summarizes the workshop’s collaborative mapping, discussion sessions, and the resulting shared interests for the Biodata Interest Group.

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Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
DataPLANT – Data in PLANT research 442077441
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
FAIRAGRO - FAIR Data Infrastructure for Agrosystems 501899475
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
NFDI4Biodiversity - National Research Data Infrastructure for Biodiversity, Ecological and Environmental Data 442032008
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
NFDI4BIOIMAGE - National research data infrastructure for microscopy and bioimage analysis 501864659
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
NFDI4Microbiota - National Research Data Infrastructure for Microbiota Research 460129525
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
NFDI4Objects - Research Data Infrastructure for the Material Remains of Human History 501836407

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