? DATA MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS CORE Real-life exposures to hazardous substances from Superfund sites occur as mixtures of many contaminants. To improve and protect human health from exposure to hazardous substances, Superfund Research Programs (SRPs) must integrate biomedical research with environmental science and engineering. The integration of data from the diverse scientific disciplines in SRPs is critical if we are to fully understand the link between exposures and disease, and prevent adverse health outcomes. Therefore, the data generated by the SRP represents an important research product that requires best practices for quality assurance, dissemination and interoperability. The primary objective of the Data Management and Analysis Core (DMAC) is to discover, implement and promulgate best practices for fostering and enabling the interoperability of data between biomedical research projects and environmental science and engineering projects to accomplish the goals of the overall Superfund Research Center. We will coordinate the development and refinement of an integrated data management plan for the entire Center. We will work closely with project & core leaders to identify data sharing platforms and to prioritize datasets for sharing across the program. We will establish data sharing guidelines and timelines. We will also continue to provide expert statistics for experimental design and multivariate data analyses. We will continue to develop and maintain software that provides an integrated data workflow for raw experimental data, important sample metadata, and downstream analysis pipelines. We will continue to model dose-response curves and biological response data. We will customize the Experimental Data Management System with data templates for all projects. We will also implement new data visualizations in our Superfund Analytics Tool to facilitate data sharing across projects and cores. We will apply novel deep- learning algorithms to all processed data streams in to link PAH exposure to outcome, and to ultimately predict the effects of PAH mixtures on biological systems. We will work closely with project and core leaders to ensure high data quality throughout the lifecycle of data generation. We will review data, document quality control procedures that account for experimental, technical, or systematic problems, and resolve problems at each step of the data life cycle. We will integrate results across all research projects and cores, and we will train the next generation of toxicologists to analyze their own data.
? DATA MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS CORE The Data Management and Analysis Core (DMAC) develops an integrated data management plan for the entire SRP. The DMAC facilitates data sharing and interoperability through custom software solutions and advanced data science to enable integration of data from biomedical research projects and environmental science and engineering projects. The DMAC implements best practices for statistically-robust experimental design, data pipelines, data integration, and data management to characterize the chemical identity and toxicities of PAHs commonly found at Superfund Sites, and to elucidate the links between exposures and disease.
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