Lifes Institute

The mission of LIFES is to facilitate an ecosystem where FAIR data generation, privacy preserving data stewardship, and equitable reuse of information are the norm. A radically distributed approach, where data is visited and queried at the source, will be an essential characteristic of this ecosystem. LIFES will serve as a catalyst for removing unnecessary barriers to equitable data visiting for legitimate research questions that meet legal, ethical, and consent requirements. LIFES addresses the challenges of global data reuse by building a wide and diverse network of public and private members that want to incorporate the principles of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and equitable data reuse. It will coordinate a strong, coherent FAIR-compliant application and services offering for training, data stewardship, analytics/machine learning and infrastructure. LIFES will broker access to these services, stimulate collaborations to fill technological and methodological gaps, and take the lead in securing public and private funding for developing strategic capabilities.