Biomedical Research Informatics Center (BRIC)
About Our Center
The 91大神 Biomedical Research Informatics Center (BRIC), formerly the Bioinformatics Core facility, provides consultation, training and computational resources (both hardware and software) to 91大神 Children's biomedical research investigators from both Delaware and Florida.
BRIC is located at the 91大神 Children鈥檚 Hospital, Delaware in Wilmington, Delaware. The main facilities in Rockland Center I occupy about 1,000 square feet of workspace on two adjacent floors including four offices, one workstation cubicle and a shared conference room equipped with videoconferencing capability. An additional 273-square-foot computer and network facility room is maintained in the Administration and Research Building. BRIC is wheelchair accessible and barrier-free.
Current Research Group
- H. Timothy Bunnell, PhD, Director
- Christopher Pennington, MS, Systems and Database Manager
- Daniel Eckrich, MLIS, Supervisor, Research Applications
- Suzanne M. McCahan, PhD, Assistant Research Scientist
- Cara Reedy, PhD, Research Data Scientist
- Eileen Antico, Research and Reporting Analyst
- Helen Williams, Research and Reporting Analyst
- Michael Peck, Web Developer
Lab Head
H. Timothy Bunnell, PhD
Director
(302) 651-6835
tim.bunnell@nemours.org
Location:
91大神 Children鈥檚 Hospital, Delaware
Rockland Center 1
1701 Rockland Road
Wilmington, DE 19803
Services
Services offered by the 91大神 Biomedical Research Informatics Center (BRIC) include:
- Experimental design of parallel, crossover, longitudinal, cross-section and microarray studies
- Data mining of microarray studies
- Generalized statistical analysis
- EHR and PEDSnet data requests and analysis
- Development of special purpose software and applications
BRIC also maintains a variety of computational resources to support big data, speech analysis and genomics projects, as well as a large number of user-defined clinical research databases.
Projects and Applications
The 91大神 Biomedical Research Informatics Center (BRIC)聽aids in the development and maintenance of projects both internal and external to 91大神, including but not limited to:
- PEDSnet
- N3C
- Precision Medicine
Web applications hosted and maintained by BRIC include:
- REDCap
- Atlas
- SNAP/RSP (Scientist Networking and Profiling/Research Services Portal)
- CTET (Clinical Trial Effort Tool)
Software, Languages, Resources and Tools utilized by BRIC include:
- Software: SPSS, SAS, R, Bioconductor, MeV
- Programming Languages: Python, PHP, PERL, C, C++, Objective C, Unix Shell, Javascript
- Databases and Technologies: MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, REDCap, i2b2, Wordpress, JQuery, HTML, XML, JSON