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Omics Data Catalog
The governed metadata layer that makes omics data findable across every project.
Every dataset, ready to use
the moment you need it.
Omics Data Catalog™ (ODC) is the governed metadata management system built to solve data discoverability and make scientific files findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). Pharmaceutical companies and data providers rely on ODC to annotate experimental parameters and biological material sources, reducing discovery bottlenecks and accelerating research cycles across the enterprise.
As translational programs expand across genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics, critical experimental context often ends up crammed into inconsistent file names, folder paths, and lab notebooks.
Omics Data Catalog standardizes metadata against structured schemas linking studies, subjects, samples, and assays.
Scientists can filter across projects by cell line, treatment condition, tissue source, or assay type to retrieve matching omics files in minutes.
Revolution Medicines relies on ODC to accelerate target triage, reduce avoidable re-runs, and maximize the return on existing data assets.
Disparate naming conventions and ad-hoc tagging make omics data difficult to find, compare, and trust across teams.
Omics Data Catalog enables data stewards to enforce unified schemas and controlled vocabularies such as ICD-10 across cataloged projects, surfacing naming drift and irregularities early.
Platform events and programmatic APIs keep metadata synchronized as new files arrive, reducing manual curation.
Enterprise research organizations use ODC as the single governed source of truth for metadata across their entire portfolio.
Planning the next experiment starts with knowing what has already been done, but without a shared view across projects, coverage gaps stay hidden.
Omics Data Catalog gives scientists a structured view of which studies, samples, assays, and conditions already exist, so they can spot missing combinations before committing new resources.
Biopharmaceutical research teams rely on ODC to inform hypotheses, direct wet-lab spend where it is needed most, and plan new studies with complete confidence.
Omics Data Catalog Capabilities
- Custom Metadata Schemas
- Controlled Vocabularies
- Faceted Search
- Linked Entity Navigation
- Bulk Metadata Loading
- Automatic Synchronization
- Direct Path to Analysis
- Programmatic Access
- Enforce metadata consistency
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