NIH Cloud Platform Interoperability (NCPI) effort

The NIH Cloud Platform Interoperability (NCPI) effort aims to establish and implement guidelines and technical standards to facilitate the establishment of a federated data ecosystem across participating US National Institutes of Health cloud platforms. Platforms currently include AnVIL, BioData Catalyst, Kids First Data Resource Center, the Cancer Research Data Commons, and the Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP).

Funding for NCPI comes primarily from the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy, with contributions to participating platforms from the National Human Genome Research Institute; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the National Cancer Institute; the National Library of Medicine; and the NIH Office of the Director.