BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

The objective of this FOA is to stimulate explorations of existing data to reveal new scientific insights applicable to substance abuse research. A corollary objective is to move forward the infrastructure needed to advance substance abuse research by enabling data and the computational services for analyzing and integrating that data to be discovered and used. For the purposes of this announcement, "secondary data analysis" refers to exploring existing data and knowledge sources to address new questions, apply new methodologies, or address hypotheses by querying and integrating related, but sometimes disparate data. Analyses may involve one or more data sets or knowledge sources, but must address fundamental research questions associated with substance abuse research. Primary data may be of multiple types and formats, and available through sources ranging from large databases and repositories to figures, images, legends and free text from published manuscripts. Supported efforts may include the activities necessary to accomplish analyses, such as locating, verifying and evaluating data sets and preparing them for semantic and computational interoperability.