The NIH Cloud Platform Interoperability (NCPI) program includes multiple organizational components that work in tandem to advance the goal of enabling a federated data ecosystem that will facilitate researcher-driven analyses of datasets across multiple cloud-based platforms and repositories. Each component serves a specific role and contributes to the success of the NCPI Program by working in alignment and collaboration with other NCPI components. NCPI organizational components include the following groups:
- NCPI Program Office in the Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS)
- NCPI Steering Committee
- NCPI Administrative Coordinating Center (ACC)
- External Advisory Board (EAB)
- NCPI Technical Working Groups
- Interoperability Projects
The NCPI Program, overseen by NIH representatives, is a collaboration between platform team members and researchers running cross-platform research efforts to inform and validate interoperability approaches.
NCPI was created as an outcome of the NIH Workshop on Cloud-Based Platforms Interoperability held at RENCI on October 3-4th, 2019 to facilitate interoperability among the genomic analysis platforms established by the NCI, NHGRI, NHLBI, and the NIH Common Fund.
NCPI is a driver project of the Global Alliance for Genomics & Health (GA4GH). More information can be found here.