The startup offers an open-source data platform that facilitates the creation and management of cloud-based data ecosystems, enabling users to harmonize and share complex datasets efficiently. This platform addresses the challenge of fragmented data resources by providing integrated analysis workspaces that enhance data interoperability and collaboration.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Scientific researchers often struggle to manage, analyze, and share large, complex datasets in the cloud due to fragmented data resources and a lack of interoperability between different data platforms. This makes it difficult to collaborate and accelerate the pace of scientific discovery.
Solution
Gen3 is an open-source data platform that enables the creation and management of cloud-based data ecosystems, including data commons and data meshes. The platform provides services for data ingestion, quality control, access control, and federated search. Gen3 allows researchers to host, manage, and share data with other researchers, developers, and health organizations. It also provides tools for exploring, exporting, and analyzing data in secure cloud environments, facilitating collaboration and accelerating scientific discovery.
Target Audience
The primary users are bioinformaticians, researchers, and developers who need to manage, analyze, and share large and complex datasets in the cloud, as well as organizations looking to build data commons and data meshes.
Features
- Supports ingestion of various data formats, including large objects and clinical/phenotype metadata
- Customizable data model for receiving and quality controlling data
- Generation of globally unique IDs for data objects
- Built-in faceted search tools for data exploration
- GraphiQL interface for custom queries
- Attribute-based access control (ABAC) policy engine for fine-grained user access control
- Open APIs for data submission, indexing, querying, and custom app development
- Integration with RStudio and Jupyter Notebooks for data analysis
- Support for Portable Format for Biomedical Data (PFB) for data import and export