Biomedical Research Information Management Program
The CTSA includes technical collaboration of four major healthcare institutions in the Cleveland area of Northeast Ohio and their associated clinical and translational components as outlined in the Governance section to build a cooperative academic home for research informatics and computer systems. The primary institutions include: Case Western Reserve University (CASE), University Hospitals Case Medical Center (UHCMC), Cleveland Clinic (CC), and MetroHealth Medical Center (MHMC). It is the goal of the CTSA to acheive breakthroughs that could be made by cooperatively leveraging systems, data and resources across all four institutions and the numerous entities will enable us to achieve results that no single organization could possibly reach in a timely and cost-effective manner. We are laying the foundation for trust and understanding through cooperative policy and data sharing agreements, and build on three key components:
- Technology Infrastructure - provide shared informatics resources, underlying connectivity and security to support more complex research and standardized information management
- Single Research Pathway - simplify intra and inter-institutional research processes, improving access to various systems, data and knowledge for PIs and other stakeholders in research
- Research-Clinic-Community Integration - build bridges with technical systems to facilitate faster development of new clinical capabilities with greater direct community involvement
MIMI
MIMI is the service researchers use to request work and services from the TTR.
One significant practical challenge encountered by high throughput proteomics facilities is the efficient utilization of costly instrumentation, computing facilities, software and staff time as well as the storage and archiving of large volumes of experimental data and results. Such challenges only become more magnified as facilities grow and new techniques and tools require increased knowledge and produce increasing volumes of data. There are no off-the-shelf software packages which combat these challenges adequately. In order to combat these challenges, the Case Center for Proteomics has collaborated with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Case School of Engineering to develop a comprehensive web-based center management system.
The system was designed in order to meet the following goals:
- effective and efficient distribution of acquired scientific data from a core facility to its investigators
- timely sharing of raw, primary and curated data for collaborative activities
- optimized scheduling and resource usage
- management of experimental workflow, e.g. multiple related tasks in one-time or longitudinal studies
- management of administrative workflow, such as tracking of material cost, staff times spent on sample preparation and data acquisition, and billing and accounting
- monitoring of the overall resource usage of a core facility, by compiling, e.g. a profile of usage statistics of equipment and types of involved projects
- coherent and common access point for data analysis workflow, linking raw data and/or primary data with results from analyses, reports, images, and references, and comparing with related results from existing databases and literature
- integration of various disparate tools which are used for various experimental tasks
The system is designed to support a core facility's administrative and scientific workflows in a single system. The administrative workflow includes managing profile data on users and research projects, scheduling scanning sessions, billing services, and compiling performance statistics to monitor resource usage. The scientific workflow consists of managing scientific data and disseminating them to the relevant researchers through a common web-interface.
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