1 Distributed Big Data & Analytics University of Cincinnati –Bioinformatics •Project/Research Title: NIH BD2K-LINCS Perturbation Data Coordination and Integration Center •Industry Sector: Health care / Environmental Health/ Biomedical Research •Science Sub-domain: Bioinformatics and Data Science •Short Description of Project & Relation to Big Data: The Library of Integrated Network Based Cellular Signatures (LINCS) project is expected to produce masses of data collected from human cells and tissues perturbed with drugs and other molecules. The center’s role is to develop new methods to integrate big data, come up with intelligent ways to mine and analyze it, intuitive tools to interact with it and to educate the research community on how to best leverage this trove of information for biomedical research. •Best Contact: Jane Combs, [email protected] •Big Data Attributes: In biomedical research, these data sources include the diverse, complex, disorganized, massive, and multimodal data being generated by researchers, hospitals, and mobile devices around the world.