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The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Biomedical Research Informatics Center (BRIC), formerly the Bioinformatics Core facility, provides consultation, training and computational resources (both hardware and software) to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Children's biomedical research investigators from both Delaware and Florida.

BRIC is located at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Children’s 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

Services offered by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ 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.

The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Biomedical Research Informatics Center (BRIC) aids in the development and maintenance of projects both internal and external to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, 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