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SPARC supports and integrates data, knowledge, tools and resources that focus on neuromodulation of the peripheral nervous system (PNS), including the spinal cord, with a special focus on its impacts on organ function, both for on- and off-target effects. SPARC provides a single entry point - the SPARC Portal - to these FAIR resources with the goal that the PNS community will leverage them to more rapidly identify neural targets and accelerate the development of therapeutic devices that modulate electrical activity in the vagus and other nerves. By facilitating research and its translation, SPARC believes our community can advance bioelectronic medicine toward more precise treatment of diseases and conditions, such as hypertension and gastrointestinal disorders.

SPARC is open to accepting datasets on the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) and its interactions with the Central Nervous System and end organs. Do you think you have an applicable dataset or model you’d like to contribute to the PNS community through the SPARC Portal? For a limited time, the NIH SPARC Common Fund will cover costs to accept datasets and models that fit the SPARC mission at no cost [1] to you, the investigator.

SPARC.Science also hosts public datasets for the NIH SPARC Program, the NIH HEAL RE-JOIN Program and the NIH HEAL PRECISION Human Pain Network. SPARC is a HEAL-compliant repository that also accepts datasets from other initiatives in HEAL and other NIH efforts with research domains within the scope of the SPARC repository.

Learn more about what SPARC has to offer, how to Submit to SPARC and submit a dataset submission request form to tell the SPARC Data and Resource Center (DRC), the people that build the SPARC Portal and its core resources, to see how

Have questions about this process or other ways that SPARC can support your research? Please contact us through this form or via email: [email protected]

[1]: Note: We are a non-profit and aim to provide our products free or for a minimal charge to the academic research community. We will never charge for access to our data and tools. However, in order to maintain and continue innovation of the SPARC Portal and associated products and services, we need those using SPARC to help defray some of our costs. Thank you for supporting our mission.

Updated 3 months ago