CLSSS: Environmental and Clinical Data Commons Initiatives at UChicago: Overviews, Demos, and Opportunities

The seminar series will highlight research in the fields of bioinformatics and computational life sciences, foster collaborations, and provide a broad audience for feedback on current research.

The format for CLSSS will be flexible (e.g., standard seminars, lightning talks, etc.) and open to faculty, students, and researchers throughout the University of Chicago community.

Our first event will showcase some of the data commons and harmonization initiatives being pursued at the University of Chicago. Currently, there is a large amount of data available to researchers across a spectrum of disciplines. However, accessing and standardizing these data are a challenge and serve as an impediment to research. The University of Chicago is involved in several initiatives to build harmonized data commons that greatly improve the ability of the research community to utilize “Big Data”. The speakers will showcase some of these initiatives involving both clinical/genomics data (e.g., Genomic Data Commons) and environmental data (e.g., OCC Environmental Data Commons). Come learn about opportunities to utilize these data in your own research and/or develop software that interacts with the commons framework.