Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Facility (BBSF)
Mission:
Our mission is to provide outstanding biostatistics and bioinformatics leadership and support for the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) and act as the hub that facilitates the interaction between the various CCC investigators and the CCC shared facilities.
Capabilities:
We have the experience and capacity to assist with:
- Developing and refining research questions
- Selecting the most suitable study design
- Developing a statistical analysis plan
- Developing and testing of data collection instruments
- Database design
- Data receipt, management, and long term storage
- Developing and implementing quality assurance plans
- Designing and generating operational, data quality, and study outcome data reports for scientific presentations and publications
- Bioinformatics
Objectives:
In order to provide outstanding support in an environment of rapidly emerging and expanding technologies, it is essential that we continue to develop
- New statistical methodologies
- New information technology and approaches to databases
- New approaches to quality assurance programs
- More efficient procedures for incorporating the results of statistical analyses into reports, presentations and publications
- More efficient and cost effective systems for long term data storage, backup, and retrieval
