The Autism Data Science Initiative (ADSI) will bring together diverse data resources to explore possible contributors to the causes of autism. ADSI will also work to identify how existing treatments/interventions are used and better understand their outcomes to inform the design of future clinical studies. 

This initiative will achieve these goals through four strategic aims: 

1. Support the integration of existing data resources with rigorous privacy protections for analysis by autism researchers.
2. Identify gaps in available data and conduct data generation specifically to fill those gaps.
3. Support analysis of the new data resources to explore the contribution of a variety of health and other factors to the causes of autism.
4. Support independent replication and validation of the initiative’s findings.