The GSID HIV Data Browser is a relational database containing the significant clinical data and sequence information pertaining to the infected subjects participating in the VAX003 and VAX004 Phase III clinical trials.

• Trial History and Background
• Data Browser Description and Analytical Tools

GSID is pleased to make this valuable resource available to the HIV vaccine research community via a web-accessible database. Please see the sections below for registration and specimen sample requests.

GSID and our consortium have also been conducting our own analysis of the VAX003 and VAX004 data and specimens. For more on our research, please see “A Path to an HIV Vaccine.”

Access to the GSID HIV Data Browser
If you are a current registered user and already have a username and password, please click here.

If you are new user, please click here to access the login tutorial and begin the registration process. You will be asked to read and accept the terms and conditions of an Access Agreement. Once you accept the terms of use, you will be asked to provide some information identifying yourself and the organization you are affiliated with.

An access fee payable by credit card via PayPal® will be required to register your username and password. The access fee has been established to be affordable to academic and other not-for-profit organizations, but set higher for commercial/private sector organizations. The access fees, which are comparable to the cost of research publications and online research tools, are necessary to help GSID offset some of the unfunded costs related to maintaining the website.

Concept Sheets for Specimen Sample Requests
Registered subscribers of the GSID HIV Data Browser have a unique opportunity to obtain certain serological samples, including serum and plasma, related to the viral sequences contained in the database. In addition, the specimen repository also contains samples from uninfected subjects. Interested investigators should submit a written concept sheet outlining the information shown directly below and submitting it via email to GSID.

Please include the following information in your concept sheet and sample request:
• Name of requesting organization
• Name of principal investigator
• Investigator contact information
• GSID subject ID#
• Type of serological material: serum or plasma
• Total quantity of material requested
• Detailed description of planned experiment methods, including the justification for quantities requested
• Description of experiment objectives
• Please identify your funding source

The specimens are a limited resource; therefore the volumes and the availability of samples may vary by each subject. GSID cannot guarantee that it will be able to fulfill a request to the exact specifications of the scientific investigator, but every effort will be made to accommodate the request. However, GSID reserves the right to adjust the request based upon availability of material and/or make recommendations to satisfy the volume requirements of the planned experiments.

Please note that any scientific publication resulting from the use of the materials provided by GSID must contain an attribution to GSID and/or the GSID HIV Data Browser. Additionally, GSID requires that it be able to review and comment on the publication at least 30 days prior to finalization.

Contact us
GSID invites you to visit the GSID HIV Data Browser website and to use this unique research tool. We are interested to hear your feedback. If you have any questions or comments about the browser, please click here to contact GSID.