The 'German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure – de.NBI' is a national, academic and non-profit infrastructure supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research providing bioinformatics services to users in life sciences research and biomedicine in Germany and Europe. The partners organize training events, courses and summer schools on tools, standards and compute services provided by de.NBI to assist researchers to more effectively exploit their data.
Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) are a new type of identifier that enables verifiable, decentralized digital identity. A DID refers to any subject (e.g., a person, organization, thing, data model, abstract entity, etc.) as determined by the controller of the DID. In contrast to typical, federated identifiers, DIDs have been designed so that they may be decoupled from centralized registries, identity providers, and certificate authorities. Specifically, while other parties might be used to help enable the discovery of information related to a DID, the design enables the controller of a DID to prove control over it without requiring permission from any other party. DIDs are URIs that associate a DID subject with a DID document allowing trustable interactions associated with that subject.
A. Goodman, A. Pepe, A. Blocker, C. Borgman, K. Cranmer, M. Crosas, R. Di Stefano, Y. Gil, P. Groth, M. Hedstrom and 5 other author(s). (2014)cite arxiv:1401.2134Comment: Accepted in PLOS Computational Biology. This paper was written collaboratively, on the web, in the open, using Authorea. The living version of this article, which includes sources and history, is available at http://www.authorea.com/3410/.