ABCD-J: Accessing Behavior for Clinical Data and Joint Usage

A platform for digital biomarkers and mhealth in Northrhine Westfalia

Clinical data is usually only collected in contact with doctors. Wearables from patients provide physicians with valuable data that complements the casual observations of individual patients in the clinical setting and from which digital biomarkers for health and disease can be derived. The ABCD-J platform provides an integrated collection and analysis environment for digital biomarkers & mobile health in North Rhine-Westphalia - by clinical researchers for clinical researchers.

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Distribits 2025

10 September 2025

The 2025 Distribits conference and hackathon on distributed data management technologies takes place October 23-25th in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Tag der Neugier at the Research Centre Jülich

7 September 2025

At the “Tag der Neugier” 2025, the research centre Jülich opened its doors to all interested visitors and presented scientific projects across all disciplines.

FDM-NRW Jour Fixe - Connections between research data management and research software engineering

9 July 2025

This month’s Jour Fixe of the NRW State Initiative for Research Data Management focused on an exciting topic: the connection between research data management and research software development.

ABCD-J 2025 Annual Meeting

8 July 2025

Bonn, 04 July 2025 - The ABCD-J consortium convened its 2025 Annual Meeting with DLR Projektträger and ABCD-J project site representatives to reflect on milestones and plan future directions for the platform.

ABCD-J Outreach - DataLad Workshop and Hackathon Organized by DKZ.2R

2 July 2025

As part of the ABCD-J project’s commitment to promoting collaboration and capacity-building, a free three-day workshop (30 June to 02 July 2025) was hosted at RWTH Aachen University to introduce participants to DataLad, one of the core components of the ABCD-J platform.