A CRI-led paper published this month in PLOS ONE introduced the scientific community to ExScalibur, a new set of state-of-the-art pipelines for the bioinformatics analysis of Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) data. Read more.
Data storage users with existing labshares can now take advantage of the CRI’s new data archival service. Our system allows researchers to securely archive data that is not in active use, save money on long-term storage, and comply with regulatory and grant requirements regarding data retention. Learn more in our Archival Storage User Guide.
The CRI’s instance of REDCap has been upgraded to version 6.5.0. Click here to read about the newest features. Please contact REDCap Support with any questions. Thank you.
This month, the March of Dimes Foundation announced a collaboration with the University of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and Duke Medicine to create a new March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center focused on determining the currently unknown factors causing premature birth.
Under the leadership of PI and Program Director Carole Ober, PhD, the University of Chicago Medicine will have the lead role in this project, to which March of Dimes will contribute $10 million over the next five years. The Center for Research Informatics will contribute bioinformatics and computing resources to this important research.
Read more about the center and the CRI’s contributions here.
On November 25, 2014 REDCap was upgraded to version 6.0.1. This new version of REDCap has many new features and improvements, along with these major features below (click on each to see a preview).
Additional training manuals can be found on our REDCap Training page. Please contact REDCap Support with any questions on these features or any other new features.
Browse our annual report to see the improvements we’ve made over the past year, the new projects we’re excited to be involved in, and our plans for 2015.
Our bioinformatics analysis resources were highlighted as essential to research by the scientists behind a study that recently appeared in the journal Anesthesiology. The CRI’s large-scale computational resources were a key part of their research, which included analyzing a massive set of medical data. Learn more: ITM Investigators Find Higher Rates of Corneal Abrasion in Robotic Hysterectomies than Open Procedures.
The CRI is currently seeking a Senior Programmer, a Senior Web Applications Developer, and a Bioinformatician. Learn more and apply at CRI Careers.
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