Transparency at NCEMS
NCEMS aims to be a leader in transparent governance and community accountability paralleling the spirit of open science research.
NCEMS is synthesizing heterogeneous data to gain new insights into and understanding of emergent properties in complex molecular and cellular systems.
Our Center is physically housed at The Pennsylvania State University with cyberinfrastructure provided by CyVerse at the University of Arizona – but most participants in research and activities are spread around the country and world. We leverage existing data and bring together diverse expertise, perspectives, and computational and human resources to tackle the largest and most transformative synthesis questions.
At Penn State, NCEMS benefits from the support and resources of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS), Eberly College of Sciences, and the College of Information Sciences and Technology. NCEMS sits under and reports to the Huck Institutes; Huck provides critical administrative support to NCEMS leadership and center initiatives and oversight. ICDS provides a range of support, with the most prominent being use of the ICDS pool of staff scientists through the RISE team that gets matrixed out to meet the growing and varying needs of NCEMS research participants.
Our Mission
We support community-scale synthesis and integration of existing molecular and cellular data to:
1. Catalyze Transformative Community-Scale Synthesis Research
2. Develop and Promote an Open Science Framework for Synthesis Research
3. Provide Seamless Access to Harmonized, High-Quality, Reproducible Data
4. Empower an Interdisciplinary Research Community to Engage in Transformative Synthesis
5. Train the Next Generation of Data-Savvy Scientists
Key Information about NCEMS
We seek to continually experiment and optimize the organizational structures, systems, and processes of the Center. The information below is therefore a snapshot in time of the center’s continually evolving approaches.
