Quantitative Science Resources
Here you can learn more about our teams, the services we offer, find answers to frequently asked questions, and find all of our service request forms in one place.
Service Request Forms
Quantitative Science Service Request
If you are requesting services from any our Core Service Centers, please submit a service request.
MyChart Recruitment Request
If you are requesting MyChart Recruitment be setup for your study, please submit a MyChart service request.
Data Request
If you are requesting data from Epic or another source for research use, please submit a data request.
Research IT Service Request
If you are requesting services from any of our Technical Service Centers, please submit a project request.
Research Tech Request
If you are requesting to use new technology or software for your study, please submit a Research Technology request.
DMSP Service Request
If you need DMSP support, please submit a DMSP service request.
Cosmos Access Request
If you need access to Cosmos, please submit a Cosmos access request.
Core Service Centers
Our Core Service Centers represent a primary area of expertise and provide tailored guidance and services to researchers throughout the research process.
Bioinformatics
The Bioinformatics team primary objective is to facilitate the planning, execution, interpretation, and reporting of genome-scale studies, providing comprehensive support across various stages of research.
Services:
- Data analysis
- Algorithm development
- Whole-genome and whole-exome sequence analysis
- Differential gene expression analysis (bulk RNA-seq)
- Differential chromatin accessibility analysis (ATAC-seq)
Biostatistics
The Biostatistics team primary objective is to support efficient and accurate statistical data analysis and planning.
Services:
- Statistical analysis plan development
- Power Calculations
- Selecting and performing proper analysis
- Results Interpretation
- Writing statistical methods and results
Clinical Research Informatics
The Clinical Research Informatics team primary objective is to support researchers as they navigate and leverage the EHR and its products for research.
Services:
- Epic data discovery facilitation.
- MyChart Recruitment
Data Science & Analytics
The Data Science and Analytics team primary objective is to assist researchers in extracting valuable insights from diverse data sets by employing a range of computational analytics and visualization techniques.
Services:
- Research data requests
- Physiological data analytics
- Data transformation
- AI/ML applications
Technical Service Centers
Our Technical Service Centers focus on the IT and data development aspects of research. They provide the infrastructure and technical expertise in collaboration with the Information management team.
Data, Discovery, & Development
The Data, Discovery, and Development team primary objective is to provide technical expertise to support data management, data sharing, development, and maintenance of data pipelines, and custom software and data applications development. This team also supports NIH-mandated data sharing requirements.
Services:
- Data Management & Sharing Plans
- Data Development and Management
- Application Development
- Creation of Research Databases (Internal & Multi-institution collaborations)
Research Information Technology
The Research IM team’s primary objective is to provide technology expertise in the development of infrastructure and services to ensure security, data integrity, and compliance with research activities. In collaboration with Lurie Children’s Information Management team, the Research IM team provides expertise, support, and resources for all research leveraging enterprise data infrastructure and ensures alignment with enterprise policies and procedures.
Core Services
Our Core Services are provided by each of our service centers and are meant to provide researchers with different avenues to engage with our service centers.
Consultation services are intended to provide guidance and education on a technical or analytic topic that our teams support. Generally, consultations end with a recommendation or final guidance from our teams for the researcher. In some cases, we may need to do some digging after the meeting before we provide the final guidance. We provide up to 3 hours of consultation time per request at no cost.
Grant support services are available to assist researchers during the design and development stage of their research projects. Our mission is to empower researchers to secure grant funding for their research projects. Our teams understand the complex nature of grants and will work with you on your research design and to craft a proposal.
As a note, there are internal deadlines that must be met when submitting a grant, in addition to the deadline for the grant itself. And so, because of this time sensitive nature, we highly encourage researchers to begin planning for their grant as soon as possible to allow our teams sufficient time to develop your required materials. Grant submissions are time intensive and require a budget, budget justifications, letters of support, biosketches, and often data management sharing plans (DMSPs).
We provide up to 20 hours of grant development per request at no cost, as long as our services are budgeted into the grant budget.
Project services are meant to provide support to an existing project or study that requires some technical or analytics services to be performed. Project services generally end in the completion of a defined ask by a researcher. For example, finishing a power analysis, building something in Epic, or constructing an interactive dashboard.
We pride ourselves in being knowledgeable of the various resources and technical teams throughout Lurie. If we cannot provide the support you need, we will work to direct you to the appropriate resources to do so. We provide project services at our current hourly rates.
Other Popular Services
These are some of the discrete service options we provide researchers.
Provided by our Data Science & Analytics Service Center. Research data requests involve pulling structured data from various sources, but most commonly from Epic, the electronic health record we use at Lurie Children’s. Our reporting team will work with you to define your query design and pull the data.
Please note you must have an approved IRB to pull any data for a research project.
We provide up to 20 hours of research data request work at no cost. Anything over 20 hours requires funding or resubmitting a request.
The Clinical Research Informatics team partners with the Office of Clinical and Community Trials to set up MyChart Recruitment in Epic to help identify and recruit study participants.
FAQs
All of our teams work closely together to get you the right services, regardless of which teams you choose in the form. That said, the more information you provide and the more complete your request is, the quicker we can find it the right home.
With the diversity of our services, it's impossible to generalize. Many of our services require extensive iterative workshopping and validation with requestors to be able to define work with enough specificity to even estimate how long it will take.
We are happy to work with you to help define your needs, but there is no denying that more complete, specific requests can be fulfilled in a much shorter time. To assist us in better supporting your request, providing detailed information up front will significantly expedite the process. In this case, the more information, the better.
We assign team members based on availability and expertise; you are welcome to let us know if you prefer to work with a specific individual. We will do our best to accommodate your request.
Our ability to prioritize requests is dependent on the current workload of our teams and resource availability, we encourage you to communicate any urgent needs as early as possible. Please understand that we may not be able to support last-minute requests if our teams are unavailable.
