# SBIR 136 - INFOTECH: Integrated Knowledge Spaces for Infectious and Immune-mediated Disease Research

> **NIH NIH N43** · INFOTECH SOFT, INC. · 2024 · $298,988

## Abstract

The past decade has witnessed an unprecedented surge in the volume and variety of biomedical data, propelling us into an era of big data. While this surge in data holds immense potential for expanding our knowledge, it has also ushered in significant challenges pertaining to the management and analysis of this continously burgeoning data stream. As immunological and other biomedical research becomes incresaingly data driven, the bottleneck in productivity is shifiting from data generation to its management, integration and analysis. The collection, aggregation, and integration of biomedical reserach data has been found to occupy as much as 70% of the time used for analytic purposes. In this project we propose to develop Inetegrated Knowledge Spaces for Infectious and Immune-mediated Disease Research, a platform that leverages biomedical ontologies to provide rich semantic models of existing immunology data sets, making it easier to represent data relevant for infectious and immune-mediated diseases into knowledge graphs, enabling users to integrate and aggregate data from multiple sources, and to deploy this data into scientific workflows. Phase 1 focuses on developing and validating key technologies and is organized under four general objectives: User-Centered Design, Knowledge Modeling, Semantic Enrichment, and Knowledge Graph Materialization.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 11214908
- **Project number:** 75N93024C00033-0-9999-1
- **Recipient organization:** INFOTECH SOFT, INC.
- **Principal Investigator:** SAMANTHA SABATINO
- **Activity code:** N43 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $298,988
- **Award type:** —
- **Project period:** 2024-09-05 → 2025-09-04

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11214908

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 11214908, SBIR 136 - INFOTECH: Integrated Knowledge Spaces for Infectious and Immune-mediated Disease Research (75N93024C00033-0-9999-1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/11214908. Licensed CC0.

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