Informatics

Informatics stewards the scientific data produced by the Simons Foundation’s research programs, primarily the division of Autism and Neuroscience, across its full lifecycle, from collection and processing to storage, access, and analysis.

The work of Informatics spans the systems that study participants interact with directly, the infrastructure that moves and manages data at scale, and the tools that make that data accessible and useful to researchers.

The group is organized into four teams made up of individuals with backgrounds in software development, bioinformatics, computational biology, data analysis and product development. These teams work with external investigators and with other groups at the foundation, including the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, SFARI Data and Biospecimen Repository team, Neuroscience Collaborations, and the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Biology, Center for Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Core. Researchers seeking access to SFARI data and biospecimens should visit SFARI Base. SFARI Base provides researchers with access to the world’s largest collection of autism research data, biospecimens, and participant cohorts.