Overview
The Cancer Informatics Services (CIS) provides equipment and expertise to researchers to assist with their translational research efforts. The CIS at UPCI is composed of the following tightly integrated services:
- Registry Information Services - supporting all of the clinical and outcomes annotation of patients in clinical trials and patients who contribute their cancer tissues to the tissue bank
- Honest Broker Services - a privacy protection component necessary to maintain HIPAA-compliant research information services
- Bioinformatics Services - providing comprehensive bioinformatics support, from experimental design to data analysis, for high-throughput genomic studies
- Clinical Trials Management Tools - supporting all of the clinical trials at UPCI
- Tissue Banking and Pathology Tools - providing systems to integrate clinical data from disparate sources





