Web of Biological Data Act of 2026

This bill would require the Secretary of Energy, within 180 days, to award a grant through a competitive process to a National Laboratory to create the "Web of Biological Data," a single online point of access for researchers to biological data, especially federally funded data, for use with computational methods such as artificial intelligence. It would also set up a research and development program on managing biological data. The Web would be tested within 2 years and expanded to U.S. researchers within 5 years, with tiered cybersecurity controls and limits on access by adversarial countries. An 11-member advisory board plus the lab director would oversee the project, and the bill authorizes $340 million over the first 3 years and $80 million for each of the following 2 years.

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Sponsors

• Todd Young Republican sponsor
• 3 cosponsors