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The problem is that scientists are generating data...or repositories are often not flexible enough to store data that do not conform to known standards. Genomics, for example, benefits from community genomics standards groups that develop standard programmatic interfaces for managing, describing, and annotating genomic data (attribution: https://gdc.cancer.gov/about-data/data-standards). Emerging data types such as...do not yet have data storage standards.

Frederick National Lab's The Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives Data Coordinating Center (CSSI DCC), supported by the Frederick National Lab, stores and manages access to data generated in support of cancer research and is supported by the NCI's Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives. The data currently in the DCC conform to the standard Investigation-Study-Assay tab-delimited format (ISA-TAB) format, which describes a scientific investigation, its study or studies, and each study's assay(s).

The DCC's goal is to store emerging data types in addition to those that comply with ISA-TAB. The DCC was designed according to the guiding principles of FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable, metadata standards such as ISA-TAB, and best practices of the cancer research community,

The Frederick National Lab CSSI DCC team, led by FNL's Andrew Quong, developed the CSSI DCC Portal, the repository for CSSI DCC data. It serves the following purposes:

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