S'ORCe Collaborative Group (RENEWED)

"Renewal Goals:
• Recruit at least two new early career investigators as faculty affiliates. Early career researchers are often eager to gain access to new datasets and establish collaborative (mentor-mentee) relationships. We believe that enthusiastic junior recruits will act as bridges and pull together senior members of NRPA-S’ORCe as generous mentors and willing collaborators.
• Provide biostatistical and bioinformatic support for multiple faculty affiliates. Although we do not envision the NRPA-S’ORCe as a full-blown service center, we see many advantages in having analysts work closely with multiple investigators. This allows analysts to learn new skills, become familiar with new datasets, and develop their own network of collaborators. Equally important, as these analysts become familiar with multiple research programs, they will see first-hand opportunities for synergy among research groups. We believe shared biostatistical and bioinformatic analytical support can be a powerful way to identify new opportunities for collaborative research.
• Streamline data and analytical resources. During the next year, we will streamline data and analytical resources by (1) porting datasets from multiple servers to a common platform, (2) creating an archive of annotated code and instructions for various analytical pipelines, (3) devoting at least one of our monthly meetings to describing and discussing shared data and analytical resources. We believe that streamlining our data and analytical infrastructure will ease the burden of working with these resources, especially for new collaborators."