FREDA

FREDA is an R package suite for curating and augmenting routine clinical oncology data, developed as part of the DataSHIELD framework. The software simplifies and standardizes data harmonization, curation, and augmentation processes in a federated analysis environment and is currently used in analysis projects by the Clinical Data Science Group of the Clinical Communication Platform of the German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK).

FREDA is a comprehensive framework consisting of three R packages: dsFreda, which is used on the server side; dsFredaClient, which can be used to control the execution of server-side functions from the client side; and FredaApp, an R Shiny application that provides visual support for monitoring the initiated processes.

The long-term goal of FREDA is to establish a standard for data harmonization, curation, and augmentation in federated analysis structures that can be used for clinical data from different sources.

The project is led by Bastian Reiter.