What is U-BRITE?
U-BRITE (UAB Biomedical Research Information Technology Enhancement) assembles new and existing HIPAA-compliant, high-performance informatics tools to provide researchers with a means to better manage and analyze clinical and genomic data sets and implements a “translational research commons” to facilitate and enable interdisciplinary team science across geographical locations.
Benefits
- Access to clinical data from Clinical Data Repository to build cohorts
- Access to genomic and other omics data from Omics Data Repository to perform detailed analytical characterizations
- Provides self-service analysis to biologists via Jupyter Notebooks and other Analysis Gateway abstractions
- Encourages participation in Jupyter Notebook, git, conda, and Docker ecosystems, which facilitate more reproducible research and team science
- Brings clinical researchers in closer contact with data scientists, informatics architects, and computer programmers
- Enables quick prototyping for new methods and tools
- Enables sharing of complex data to bioinformaticians
About Us
Sponsor
James Cimino, M.D., FACMI, FACP
Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Chair, UAB Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Steering Committee
Robert Kimberly, M.D.
Director, UAB Center for Clinical Translational Science
Senior Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research
Associate Vice President for Medicine and Biomedical Research
Ralph Zottola, Ph.D.
Assistant Vice President for Researching Computing
Chief Architect for UAB Research Computing Applications
Bruce Korf, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief Genomics Officer
UAB Medicine Co-Director, UAB-HudsonAlpha Center for Genomic Medicine
Associate Director for Rare Diseases, Hugh Kaul Personalized Medicine Institute
Program Director
Jake Y. Chen, Ph.D.
Professor
UAB Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Director, Systems Pharmacology AI Research Center (SPARC)
Informatics Team
John Osborne, Ph.D.
Project Design and Liaison
Assistant Professor
UAB Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Matthew Wyatt
Clinical Data Access
Director of Clinical Research Informatics
UAB Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Amy Wang, M.D., MBI
Associate Professor
Director of Clinical Research Informatics
UAB Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Zhandos Sembay
Architecture, Design, and Tech Support
UAB Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Web Team
Nafisa Ajala
Informatics Program Specialist
UAB Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
