UNLOCK FAIR data platform

The UNLOCK FAIR data platform (FDP), is an interoperable research infrastructure, designed to support microbial research through FAIR data collection, analysis, and storage. It is a core component of the UNLOCK facility.

At its heart, the FDP consists of two elements:

• iRODS: for computing, data management, and long-term data storage, hosted by Wageningen University & Research (WUR)

• Containerized applications and workflows: enabling reproducible and scalable data analysis.

To support flexible and meaningful data integration, UNLOCK adopted the Resource Description Framework (RDF) data model, allowing semantically structured links between datasets from diverse sources.