The Core has built a state-of-the-art computing system in consultation with Rush IS/IT that can support research activities and large databases that can extract:
- Electronic medical records of patient data
- Electronic case report forms from RedCAP data collection system
- Biospecimen data
Survey instruments are available on demand to investigators through an onsite implementation of RedCAP.
The Core maintains and uses the Research Private Cloud, an innovative set of infrastructure tools. The cloud hosts a MS SQL database storing research-related data and is planned to support virtual environments for researchers, and Hadoop-related tools for Big Data analyses.
The Core also has a dedicated computing cluster for genetic, RNA-seq, and next-generation sequencing studies.