Informatics
Informatics Hub: Support Informatics needs across the data lifecycle for a broad array of research activities relevant to brain health
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Our Expertise
The Informatics Hub supports informatics needs across the entire data lifecycle with expertise in:
Data Management/Cyberinfrastructure Development – Standardizing and/or developing data workflows for the input, storage, and output of data from multiple sources. This includes tasks like data ingestion, transformation, conversion, and versioning.
Data Stewardship – Managing the onboarding and offboarding of data users, developing documentation for data access control and policy, and auditing user access of data.
Data Compliance – Ensuring and documenting that data workflows and systems comply with internal and external regulatory and operational data security requirements.
Development Operations – Supporting research applications and data infrastructure including customized LORIS deployments.
Neuroimaging Informatics – Running standardized pipelines such as fMRIPrep, image preprocessing and processing, and providing solutions for data analysis, storage, and sharing.
Our Leadership
Jesse Erdmann
Senior Architect for Advanced Computing Projects, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
Timothy Hendrickson, MS
Neuroimaging Informatics Manager, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
Thomas Pengo, PhD
Co-Director of Research Informatics, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
Jeff Shi, PhD
Informatics Manager, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
How We Engage
Leadership
Jesse Erdmann
Senior Architect for Advanced Computing Projects
Timothy Hendrickson, MS
Neuroimaging Informatics Manager
Thomas Pengo, PhD
Director of MIDB Informatics Hub
Jeff Shi, PhD
Informatics Project Lead
Data Management and Compliance
Monalisa Bilas, MIS
Data Manager
Research Consultant
Amanda Bullert, PhD
Data Manager
Research Consultant
Denisha Demeritte, MPH
Data Steward
Naomi Hospodarsky, MSc
Research Security and Compliance Analyst
Borgne Raasch
Data Steward
Rachael Huxford, PhD
Data Manager
Research Consultant
Informatics Neuroimaging
Erik Lee
Senior Neuroimaging Analyst
Tanya Pandhi
Neuroimaging Analyst
Operations
Kimberleigh Breen, BA
Linux Systems DevOps Engineer
Data Manager
Anders Skaar
Linux Systems DevOps Engineer
Devin Willis
Linux Systems DevOps Engineer
Project Management
Yolanda Gondwe, MPH
Research Project Manager
Maren Macgregor-Hannah
Senior Research Project Manager
Examples of Our Engagement
EPINET
The Informatics Core worked with the EPINET team to outline a data workflow for the project and generate reports. We also worked with the EPINET team to deliver data exports to the EPINET National Data Coordinating Center. Learn more about EPINET.
Dysfunctional State Representations in Psychosis
The Informatics Core provided assistance by formatting data, developing data dictionaries, and setting up storage locations to facilitate the primary workflows. We have also initiated creation of more advanced repositories for future use. This project is widely distributed across several teams and multiple species. Learn more about the project here.
Brain Wide Association Studies (BWAS)
The Informatics Core performed an analysis on the entire UK BioBank data set to address the reproducibility of Brain-wide Association Studies (BWAS). This effort involved a tightly coordinated effort to manage data and computation involving 300 core-years of computation within a month (3600x speed-up) to complete this effort.
Project Management (LORIS)
The Informatics Core developed infrastructure for deploying LORIS, a database with a web front-end for managing multi-modal brain research data. We have deployed a proof-of-concept instance, uploaded the dataset from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study, establishing proof-of-concept configuration and remote analysis, and presenting to leadership at National Institutes of Health.