Computing and data science

The IBI provides leadership, education, and critical infrastructure to advance the integration and application of informatics methods and software in biomedical research including studies of common neuropsychiatric diseases such as depression, anxiety, stroke, and dementia.

Penn Neurodegeneration Genomics Center (PNGC) is part of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, in the Perelman School of Medicine, at the University of Pennsylvania. PNGC studies genetics of Alzheimer’s Disease and other related dementia. Our researchers apply high throughput genotyping and sequencing technologies to analyze tens of thousands of genomes and find novel genes. New experimental approaches, algorithms, and databases are developed in order to translate these findings into biological knowledge about the disease and new directions for drug discovery and preventive strategies.

IBI, OCR, and Corporate IS have been working on the Penn Research Analytics Storefront, a catalogue, access instructions, and training materials for the various clinical research databases and databases, PennG&P/TriNetX, COVID i2b2, SlicerDicer, Penn Medicine BioBank.  To access the storefront, one must either be on the UPHS network or PSOM VPN.