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The Niddk Central Repository At 8 Years—Ambition, Revision, Use And Impact, Charles F. Turner, Huaqin Pan, Gregg W. Silk, Mary-Anne Ardini, Vesselina Bakalov, Stephanie Bryant, Susanna Cantor, Kung-Yen Chang, Michael Delatte, Paul Eggers, Laxminarayana Ganapathi, Sujatha Lakshmikanthan, Joshua Levy, Sheping Li, Joseph Pratt, Norma Pugh, Ying Qin, Rebekah Rasooly, Helen Ray, Jean E. Richardson, Amanda Flynn Riley, Susan M. Rogers, Charlotte Scheper, Sylvia Tan, Stacie White, Philip C. Cooley Sep 2011

The Niddk Central Repository At 8 Years—Ambition, Revision, Use And Impact, Charles F. Turner, Huaqin Pan, Gregg W. Silk, Mary-Anne Ardini, Vesselina Bakalov, Stephanie Bryant, Susanna Cantor, Kung-Yen Chang, Michael Delatte, Paul Eggers, Laxminarayana Ganapathi, Sujatha Lakshmikanthan, Joshua Levy, Sheping Li, Joseph Pratt, Norma Pugh, Ying Qin, Rebekah Rasooly, Helen Ray, Jean E. Richardson, Amanda Flynn Riley, Susan M. Rogers, Charlotte Scheper, Sylvia Tan, Stacie White, Philip C. Cooley

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The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Central Repository makes data and biospecimens from NIDDK-funded research available to the broader scientific community. It thereby facilitates: the testing of new hypotheses without new data or biospecimen collection; pooling data across several studies to increase statistical power; and informative genetic analyses using the Repository’s well-curated phenotypic data. This article describes the initial database plan for the Repository and its revision using a simpler model. Among the lessons learned were the trade-offs between the complexity of a database design and the costs in time and money of implementation; the …


Introduction To Gis Using Open Source Software, 1st Ed, Frank Donnelly Jan 2011

Introduction To Gis Using Open Source Software, 1st Ed, Frank Donnelly

Open Educational Resources

This tutorial was created to accompany the GIS Practicum, a day-long workshop offered by the Newman Library at Baruch College CUNY that introduces participants to geographic information systems (GIS) using the open source software QGIS. The practicum introduces GIS as a concept for envisioning information and as a tool for conducting geographic analyses and creating maps. Participants learn how to navigate a GIS interface, how to prepare layers and conduct a basic geographic analysis, and how to create thematic maps. This tutorial was written using QGIS version 1.5 "Tethys", a cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) desktop GIS software package.