The NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative is considering the development of a biomedical Data Catalog to make biomedical research data findable and citable, analogous to what PubMed does for scientific publications. Such a Data Catalog would be intended to make it easier for researchers to find, share, and cite data, as well as the publications and grants that they are associated with.

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http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HG-13-011.html

(Via Mark Guyer for the BD2K Initiative, NIH)