Overview
SODA is a cross-platform desktop software that helps researchers prepare and share FAIR peripheral nervous system (PNS) related data and models using the SPARC Data Structure (SDS) and the SPARC Portal. Since 2021, SODA has been installed on over 1300 computers, empowering researchers worldwide.
What is SPARC?
The NIH's Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) program seeks to accelerate development of therapeutic devices that modulate electrical activity in nerves to improve organ function.
What are the FAIR SPARC Data Guidelines?
All SPARC-funded researchers must curate their datasets following the SPARC Data Standards (SDS) and share them openly on the Pennsieve data platform as per their funding agreement with SPARC.
What are the challenges?
The guidelines are very exhaustive to maximize FAIRness of SPARC datasets but are challenging and time-consuming for researchers to implement.
What does SODA do?
SODA combines intuitive user interfaces and automation such that researchers can efficiently and accurately curate their SPARC datasets.
Impact on SPARC datasets
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Development approach
SODA is distributed as an open-source application with an MIT License. Anyone is free to fork our GitHub repository and make their own changes if they would like. If you would like to submit a feature modification, or feature suggestion, please feel free to submit an issue on the repository.
Funding
SODA is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)'s SPARC program. The funding was initially provided as a supplement to an existing SPARC award at CalMI during the first phase of development before now having a standalone award.
Team
Members
Researchers, engineers, and collaborators behind this project.
Research partners
SODA for SPARC connects with several resources developed by the SPARC Data Resource Center (DRC) and we therefore collaborate actively with the DRC teams throughout our development process.
Timeline
Milestone 7
Phase VI development
Sept 2024 - Aug 2025
Impact related to this project
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- 2024Journal Articles
Marroquin, C., Clark, J., Portillo, D., Soundarajan, S., Ngo, T., & Patel, B. (2024). SODA: Software to Support the Curation and Sharing of FAIR Autonomic Nervous System Data. Journal of Open Source Software, 9(100), 6140, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06140
- 2021Preprints
Bandrowski, A., Grethe, J. S., Pilko, A., Gillespie, T., Pine, G., Patel, B., Surles-Zeigler, M., & Martone, M. E. (2021). SPARC Data Structure: Rationale and Design of a FAIR Standard for Biomedical Research Data. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.10.430563
- 2021Web Articles
SPARC Data Structure: Rationale and Design of a FAIR Standard for Biomedical Research Data. (2021). SPARC. https://sparc.science/news-and-events/community-spotlight/success-stories/sharing-is-caring-making-sparc-data-fair-with-soda
- 2020Abstract
Patel, B., Srivastava, H., Aghasafari, P., & Helmer, K. (2020). SPARC: SODA, an interactive software for curating SPARC datasets. The FASEB Journal, 34(S1), 1–1. https://doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.2020.34.s1.02483
- 2019Software
SODA. (started 2019). https://github.com/fairdataihub/SODA-for-SPARC (Development status: Active)