Category Archives: Research

DataNet Federation Consortium

Overview The DataNet Federation Consortium (DFC) is one of four DataNet projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). DFC is a multi-institutional project developing national data management infrastructure to support collaborative multidisciplinary research through shared data collections and shared research workflows. A focus of the project is developing interoperability mechanisms between DFC-enabled data management […]

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NC TraCS

Overview The North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill is one of 60 medical research institutions working together as a national consortium to improve the way biomedical research is conducted across the country. The consortium, funded through the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA), shares a common vision to […]

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Evidence-Based Medicine

The growth of systems that capture and store electronic medical records is creating greater opportunity for historical data to inform the decision-making processes of physicians. This field of research is known as evidence-based medicine. RENCI is involved with several different knowledge-based medical research projects in efforts led by Senior Research Scientist Ketan Mane.

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Brown Bag Lecture Series

Overview The RENCI Brown Bag Lecture series features talks by RENCI experts, partners and participants in the Carolina Launch Pad on current research activities. Unless otherwise advertised, the talks are held at noon on the third Wednesday of every month except November and December. All lectures are held in Suite 590 at RENCI headquarters, 100 […]

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Geoanalytics Platform

Overview Visualizations of geographically-referenced data, such as measures of disease occurrence across the country or atmospheric data around the globe, can be immensely useful. But developing applications using such data sets can be challenging. There is no standard format or cataloging system for geo-referenced data, and once the data sets are found and formatted, they […]

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Informatics for Genetic Sequencing

Overview Technological advances have given researchers and clinicians access to an enormous amount of information about the human genome. Studying the genomes of individuals and populations can help us better understand human health and disease, evaluate factors that modify risk for disease, inform diagnoses, help predict response to treatments, and identify new drug targets. Given […]

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Weather and Emergency Management Decision Support

Overview Weather has a significant impact on society and the economy. Understanding weather is critical to decisions about evacuations, allocation of resources, school and business closures, water resource management and disease contaminant efforts. However, there are currently few decision support systems through which science-based weather information from the National Weather Service is effectively communicated to […]

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Orthophotography

Overview The state of North Carolina has conducted extensive aerial surveys of the state using orthophotography—a method of aerial photography that produces extremely high resolution images. With each pixel representing six inches of space on the ground, these orthophotos are a valuable resource for state tax assessment and planning purposes, as well as for research […]

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Sensor Data Bus

Overview The wealth of data available from sensors, satellites, and Internet services has created a glut of information that is often too vast for a researcher to adequately capture or comprehend in a simplistic data model. Multidisciplinary research that uses environmental data—such as research on the impacts of climate change—requires scientists to be able to […]

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Secure Research Space: Security for a world of distributed data

Overview The Carolina Data Warehouse for Health (CDW-H) houses clinical health records for all UNC Hospitals patients. These records are a valuable source of data for researchers. In addition to enabling access for legitimate healthcare and research purposes, the CDW-H must protect against loss of these records to ensure patient privacy and security. RENCI’s Role […]

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