Data Management

Data Systems Services

Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics provides data collection, cleaning, and storage services to research investigators.

  • Cloud computing and server/desktop virtualization, hosted within the UCSF network and compliant with NIST-mandated security protocols
  • Customized programming and data services
  • Customized databases for outcome ascertainment studies
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Data management services available

DMPTool

An online application that helps researchers create data management plans.

  • Meets funder requirements
  • Quick-start guide
  • General data management guidance
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Free for UCSF Community
Data management services available

Eureka Research Platform

For online, mobile, and hybrid research studies, use Eureka, the cloud-based, HIPAA compliant research platform, created at UCSF and approved by UCSF IT Security. Key features include: 

  • Mobile and web app study experience for fully remote or hybrid data collection
  • Rapid remote recruitment from 400,000+ already-engaged participants or your own new participants
  • Electronic / remote consent process, questionnaires, and other patient-generated data
  • Wearable and mobile device data collection
  • EHR integration via FHIR
  • Coordinator data entry (eg: eCRFs)
  • Flexible automated reminders for optimized engagement and follow-up
  • Study management portal with raw data and customizable reports on demand with flexible access permissions
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Information Commons

Clinical data at scale and very high performance, and an environment suited to pattern recognition and machine learning. This high performance compute cluster on AWS offers:

  • Access to de-identified structured EHR data; additional data sets coming soon, including de-identified clinical notes and images
  • Spark analytics engine, that enables fast data query via Spark-SQL, Machine Learning via Spark MLib, R via SparkR
  • Query data using PatientExploreR  
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Free for UCSF Community

Library Data Science Initiative

Workshops, programs and expertise/office hours in:

  • Finding, Managing & Sharing Data
  • Statistics, Bioinformatics and Genomics
  • Programming in R, Python and more
  • Data Visualization with Tableau
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Free for UCSF Community
Research Specialist available

NLP@UCSF

UCSF's NLP community curates knowledge as participants experiment, learn and implement NLP tools in clinical and biomedical research projects.

  • Slack channel and regular meetups
  • Recommended tools for textual analysis of clinical notes
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Free
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Research Analysis Environment (RAE)

Formerly known as MyResearch, RAE offers secure hosting for sensitive data with web-based management and collaboration tools including support for study-specific large datasets and AWS resource options.

  • View, manipulate, and save data entirely in a protected environment without storing files on personal computers
  • Free access to research software applications, such as SAS, Stata, SPSS, R, TreeAge, Atlas.ti, MS Office, and Matlab - see full list
  • Collaboration tools, such as SharePoint, facilitate the conduct of multi-site research studies
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Free up to 10GB/month for UCSF PIs

Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap)

Web-based HIPAA-compliant and secure electronic data capture and storage for research studies.

  • Develop data entry forms and surveys
  • Data validation
  • Database reports
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Free for UCSF Community
Consultation available

San Francisco Coordinating Center

Combines scientific expertise with broad experience in managing multi-center studies, and offers access to a network of high quality, experienced clinical centers.

  • Study design, coordination and implementation
  • Measurement selection
  • Protocol development
  • Database design
  • Research study data collection via fax
  • Data quality control
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