Brainworks expansion SOW.pdf

National Institutes of Health Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)

Expansion of NIH BRAINWORKS for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (BSSR)

STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW)

August 15, 2022

1.0 INTRODUCTION

The BRAIN Initiative Workspace to ORganize the Knowledge Space (or BRAINWORKS) was developed as a web-based tool to enable the discovery of more comprehensive theories of brain function through the integration of multi-modal, multi-scale brain data. The BRAINWORKS web application (https://brainworks.scigami.org/home) produces interactive graphs to “organize, integrate, and represent the nuanced knowledge contained within the growing body of the scientific literature.” The application is free and available for public use, and it continues to be developed through ongoing work at the National Institute for Neurological Diseases and Stroke

(NINDS). The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) would like to expand the BRAINWORKS platform to include Behavioral and Social Sciences Research

(BSSR) data to help to discover research gaps, conduct various analyses (e.g. network analyses), and track trends in the field.

2.0 BACKGROUND

A key priority of the OBSSR Strategic Plan is to “enhance and promote the research infrastructure, methods, and measures needed to support a more cumulative and integrated approach to behavioral and social sciences research.” A recent report by a National Institutes of

Health (NIH) Council of Councils Working Group supported this priority and noted that

“improved precision of the measurement tools would reveal greater nuance in funding trends in

BSSR and beyond” and is critical to better realize the benefits of BSSR to health.

BRAINWORKS provides an innovative platform for extracting and representing data from diverse sources (e.g., funded grants, publications). This data can then be leveraged to identify gaps and trends in the science as well as identify opportunities for greater integration of the behavioral, social, and biomedical sciences. The existing BRAINWORKS tool uses brain-related information so the inclusion of additional BSSR data will be a natural progression for the application. An infusion of BSSR data into the platform will facilitate the creation of data visualizations accessible by researchers internal and external to the NIH. This project will help the OBSSR better track and coordinate BSSR across the NIH and will support more targeted identification of research gaps and opportunities.

3.0 SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES

Using the existing BRAINWORKS platform and focusing on 2-3 BSSR use cases, the contractor shall:

https://brainworks.scigami.org/home

• Convene kick-off meeting with Contracting Officer Representative (COR) and NIH scientific team within two weeks of contract award to review the Statement of Work

(SOW).

• In collaboration with the OBSSR team, discuss and finalize the BSSR use case topics.

Topics may focus on a specific disease, discipline, or methodology as determined by the contractor and OBSSR team.

• Based on the selected topics, integrate relevant BSSR-related controlled and curated vocabularies, taxonomies or ontologies, and/or measures repositories into the

BRAINWORKS tool to support the application of natural language processing (or other appropriate analytic methodology) to extract and represent BSSR trends and patterns.

Additionally, incorporate publicly available data from funded grants (e.g., NIH

RePORTER), scientific manuscripts (e.g., PubMed abstracts), and other publicly accessible metadata (e.g., grants, authors, institutions, citations) to populate the

BRAINWORKS application.

• Develop visualizations using the BRAINWORKS application to identify gaps, trends, and relevant research networks using the selected use cases. Collaborate with the

OBSSR team to review and refine products.

• Submit monthly progress reports and presentations that summarize methods and results to date as well as completed activities, upcoming activities, and unanticipated issues.

Convene monthly meetings with the project team to update on status and progress.

4.0 TYPE OF CONTRACT

This is a fixed price contract.

5.0 PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE

The anticipated period of performance for this requirement is for 12 months: September 1, 2022

– August 31, 2023.

6.0 PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

All services shall be provided at the Contractor’s facility unless otherwise required to come to

NIH campus for meetings. The government will provide access to the NIH information or personnel needed to satisfactory complete the deliverables.

7.0 REPORT(S)/DELIVERABLES AND DELIVERY SCHEDULE

All written draft and final deliverable products shall be submitted in electronic copy for review and comment. All deliverables shall be sent electronically using Microsoft products for any training materials or plans, and .mp3 or .wav for audio files, per the following deliverable schedule:

Task Due Date

Kick-off meeting Within 10 days of award

Finalize 2-3 use case topics November 1, 2022

Draft visualizations of first use case March 1, 2023 Draft visualizations of remaining use cases June 1, 2023

Final visualizations of all use cases August 1, 2023

Monthly progress reports and meetings 15th of every month