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UNC-Chapel Hill’s RENCI and CRC unveil new streamlined APSViz user interface for hurricane impacts and visualization

APSViz could be a key resource for state and federal stakeholders and response teams as Atlantic Ocean heats up The 2024 Atlantic Ocean hurricane season started off with Hurricane Beryl, an intense Category 5 storm that caused much damage along its path through the Caribbean region before weakening and making a final landfall along the […]

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RENCI receives $1.4 million NSF award to help develop an expansive public-data infrastructure

RENCI will design an interconnecting fabric that links a diverse set of knowledge graphs, helping form a prototype Open Knowledge Network to power the next information revolution RENCI has received $1.4 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the Building the Prototype Open Knowledge Network (Proto-OKN) program. The program is developing […]

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NC researchers reconvene for second Clinical and Environmental Health Data workshop

On Friday, February 23, 2024, RENCI hosted the second workshop in a series on Clinical and Environmental Health Data, themed “Integrating Exposures Data into Clinical Data Assets: Building a Regional Center of Excellence.” The inaugural workshop, themed “Clinical and Environmental Health Data Workshop Series – Exploration,” was also hosted by RENCI in May 2023.  The […]

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ChatGPT used to streamline medical record analysis in EduHeLx

The EduHeLx team at the Renaissance Computing Institute demonstrated time- and cost-saving capabilities of ChatGPT in an educational use case for a UNC-Chapel Hill clinical data science course. In the past few months, ChatGPT has risen from relative obscurity to a newsworthy technology for its revolutionary artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. The natural language processing chatbot […]

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NC researchers come together to harness the power of clinical and environmental health data

In an increasingly interconnected world, the integration of clinical and environmental health data holds immense potential for advancing research, improving patient outcomes, and shaping the future of healthcare. However, to truly make an impact on individuals and communities, institutional and scientific silos that hinder collaboration and resource sharing must be overcome. Recognizing this challenge, Cavin […]

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RENCI strengthens storm surge response capabilities

APSViz provides critical, high-resolution coastal hazards information to expedite decision-making and productivity On September 28, 2022, Hurricane Ian made landfall along the west coast of Florida as a Category 4 hurricane–the strongest Category 4 hurricane to hit the region since Hurricane Charley in 2004–causing substantial damage from strong winds and the resulting storm surge and […]

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EduHeLx: A Cloud-based Programming Platform for Data Science Education

The EduHeLx pilot experiment informed future thinking about incorporating cloud-based technologies in UNC-CH courses, including courses in the new UNC-CH School of Data Science & Society (SDSS)

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New concept poised to accelerate drug discovery through data mining

RENCI scientists and collaborators have developed and defined a concept called Clinical Outcome Pathways (COPs) that could help scientists harness the vast amounts of clinical and biomedical data available today to accelerate drug discovery and drug repurposing.

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RENCI’s Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Support Team introduces updated research resources

The Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Support (ACIS) team at RENCI works to provide efficient, available resources for our researchers. Over the last several months, the team has introduced several new capabilities and tools that support researchers in successfully producing results from their computing research.

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Use cases show Translator’s potential to expedite clinical research

RENCI investigators are contributing to the development of a platform called Biomedical Data Translator that will allow researchers to easily access and interrelate large amounts of data relevant to advancing biomedical research.

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