Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research

- Research Resources Overview
- - Shared Cores
    Our cores and shared resources offer a wide range of services to meet your research goals.
  - Shared Equipment
    Shared equipment is available to University of Nebraska and external researchers.
- - Study Intake
    Take the first step in conducting clinical research on campus by completing the study intake process.
  - Standard Operating Procedures
    Review the standard operating procedures of our clinical research program.
  - Education
    Learn more about training and education opportunities available for the campus clinical research community.
  - Recruitment
    Discover resources, guidelines and support to make the research recruitment process streamlined.
- - Software
    Find the software and applications that can take your research to the next level.
  - Data Management
    Explore data management plan creation and storage options to keep research data safe and secure.
  - IT Resources
    Access key tools, workshops and seminars with IT resources available.
  - Network Connectivity
    Learn about lab network connectivity available across campus.
- - Buildings
    Research buildings offer a wide-range of lab spaces and facilities to meet researchers' needs.
  - Space Policy
    Research space is assigned based on a merit-based system.
- Programs & Centers Overview
- Approved Centers
  Board of Regents Centers enhance faculty research and academic efforts.
- Major Programs
  Major research programs drive innovation in critical areas of biomedical science.
- Compliance Overview
- Institutional Review Board
  The IRB reviews human subjects research projects and ensures the protection of participants.
- Institutional Biosafety Committee
  The IBC ensures the health and safety of all personnel working with biohazardous agents.
- Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee
  The IACUC reviews research and provides guidance to maintain the highest standards of animal welfare.
- Investigational Device Review Committee
  The IDRC reviews investigational devices and approved devices provided by sponsors for use in clinical research studies.
- Funding Overview
- Sponsored Programs Administration
  Our office manages the full lifecycle of sponsored research projects.
- Funding Opportunities
  Find internal and external research funding opportunities.
- Grant Editing
  Grant review and editing resources are available to UNMC researchers.
- UneHealth
  UNeHealth supports clinical research projects throughout the life of industry-funded contracts.
- Innovation Overview
- Tech Transfer
  Our technology commercialization ecosystem helps researchers transform scientific discoveries into real-world solutions.
- Economic Development
  Through collaborations with strategic partners, we create pathways for innovation to drive economic growth.

— Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research — Research Resources — IT & Research Data — General Resources

General Resources

There are several general information technology resources available to researchers at UNMC. Highlighted below are a few key tools. Past workshops and seminars have been added for your training convenience in the right sidebar.

Clinical Data Access:

There are three ways to access data for research purposes in Epic (depending on data and IRB approval).

Use of the Research, Education, Administration, and Development of Biomedical Informatics Core
Use of CRANE, our curated, de-identified data set which contains annotated, encoded, structured Epic data that is extracted weekly (Contact CRANE Coordinator: Jerrod Anzalone)
Slicer Dicer is a data exploration tool in the Epic for group analysis. Please submit an IT request through Service Now if you need access.

Please review a past presentation to learn more about available resources for clinical data access.

SailPoint:

SailPoint is an Identity Security Cloud system for requesting AD groups via IdentityIQ to user AD accounts for either Olympus (Nebraska Medicine Active Directory) or UNMC (UNMC Active Directory) domains. It is to be used by authorized individuals only. If users AD security group have not yet been migrated into SailPoint, a ticket to Systems Access must be opened to move the AD security group into it for user management.

Please refer to the SailPoint document for managing user access. If you need assistance on SailPoint, please submit your request to IT helpdesk.

Dataverse:

UNMC users can use the Harvard Database. Please log in using your UNMC credentials and upload the dataset through the log in page. Read instructions on file sizes and file formats that are accepted to the repository before uploading. Note: We do not have a local instance of the Dataverse.

BioCyc Database Collection:

BioCyc Database provides tools for navigating, visualizing, and analyzing underlying databases. It also provides tools for analyzing omics data such as:

Display of individual metabolic pathways, and of full metabolic maps
Multiple analysis methods for user-supplied omics and multi-omics datasets including painting onto metabolic maps, regulatory maps, and genome maps
Store groups of genes and pathways in your account as SmartTables; share, analyze, transform those groups
Comparative analysis tools