Goals

• Harmonize data representations, metadata standards, ontologies and programmatic interfaces within NFDI
• Facilitate NFDI-wide queries and cross-references
• Provide consistent metadata annotation to existing and new data sets and make them available through our repositories
• Enable and support users to utilize the resources provided by NFDI4Immuno
• Promote the adoption of FAIR practices by the immunological community, in support of the cultural change towards Open Science
• Build and operate a network of federated repositories for immunological data
• Develop tools and services that will facilitate standardized and reproducible data analyses

Use Cases

One of the planned activities of NFDI4Immuno is to establish federated repositories for immune receptor repertoire data. These data will allow conclusions about how strongly and how specifically subsets of immune cells have been activated by, e.g., a virus. As the genetic blueprint of immunoglobulins and T cell receptors, they also provide the basis for therapeutic antibodies and adaptive T cell therapies. NFDI4Immuno therefore operates repositories for these data, actively participates in the further development of the software stack used by the community for this purpose and will curate and publish its own and already public third-party data.