Research Data and IT Services

Research(er) information

• Profiles (UC San Diego Health) [no cost]
• Dimensions tool (focus is on research outputs, though some incidental activity visible) [no cost]
• SIO maintains internal repositories w/researcher info [no cost]

Data management plan support

• DMP Tool [no cost]
• Library training on data management plans [no cost]

Technology boilerplate (Facilities section detail) for proposals

• Proposal technology boilerplate for network, SDSC colo, Triton Shared Computing Cluster (TSCC) [no cost]
• For services that use SDSC resources; email consult@sdsc.edu [no cost] 

Assistance locating resources

• UC San Diego Research IT Services or email research-it@ucsd.edu for consultation [no cost]
• For SDSC-specific services and resources, email consult@sdsc.edu [no cost] 
• (SIO) Scripps IT research IT consulting [no cost]
• ACTRI Clinical trials management VELOS/REDCap [VELOS: fee, REDCAP: no cost]
• ACTRI Biostatistical support, study design, etc [fee]

Document collaboration

• Google Workspace (incl. Google Drive, Google Apps, Google Sites) [no cost]
• OneDrive for Business [no cost]
  • (UCSD Health) OneDrive (requires login in Pulse) [No Cost]
• Open Science Framework (middleware that ties services together) [no cost]

Collaborative conversation

• Zoom videoconferencing [no cost]

Data workspace & storage

• SDSC Cloud [fee]
• SDSC Project [fee]
• SDSC Universal Scale Storage [fee]
• Commercial cloud: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud [fee]
• (UC San Diego Health) Health System IS department disk or lab shares [limits, free]  
• (UC San Diego Health) Health System IS - USER K:drive (link requires login to Pulse) mapped to your desktop and/or laptop. With the K drive you can safely store and back up individual data. Off-site/campus requires UC San Diego Health VPN (Including PHI). [no cost]
• (SIO) Scripps IT hosts storage [fee], or manages lab storage servers [fee]

CPU/GPU to process data

• National supercomputing resources at SDSC [no cost w/ACCESS allocation], email consult@sdsc.edu 
• Triton Shared Computing Cluster (TSCC) – HPC cluster condo/hotel [fee]
• Research IT Services Research Cluster [no cost]
• Open Science Grid high-throughput computing resource [grant]

Regulated data secure access

• (UC San Diego Health) ACTRI and Information Services – Researcher Virtual Research Desktops:
  • VMWare Horizon – through CTRI 
  • Citrix XenApp – through Health IS (request access via the Health Service Now website)
• (UC San Diego Health) Health IS offers department (25TB) /lab disk shares  [5TB no cost; additional storage for fee]

Regulated data storage and compute

• Sherlock – SDSC [fee]
• (UC San Diego Health) Health System IS hosting offering (requires login to Pulse) [fee]

Data loss prevention

• Email security – Proofpoint [no cost]
• Full-disk encryption [no cost]

Way to back up data

• SDSC CommVault backup service [fee]
• (UC San Diego Health) CommVault (requires login to Pulse) for file servers, Web, and other hosted applications and protected data [Note: not a standalone service; included as a part of VMs and storage offerings]  
• (SIO) Scripps IT hosts backup [fee], or manages lab backup servers [fee]
• Commercial cloud: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud [fee]

Data center hosting

• SDSC Colocation facility [no cost or fee, depending on needs]
• (SIO) SIO Colocation facility [no cost or fee, depending on needs]
• Information Services UCSD Health Hosting (requires login to Pulse) [no cost or fee, depending on needs]

Development of demos/proofs of concept

• Research IT Services [no cost]
• (SIO) Scripps IT is available for small PoC projects depending on available resources [no cost]

Web dev

• (UC San Diego Health) UCSD Health Marketing: Lab websites (non-content) framework (contact for team availability) 
• (SIO) Scripps IT can help set up web platforms for data collection and analysis [fee]

Software development

• Research IT Services [both no-cost & fee]
• SDSC Consulting (ad-hoc limited scope service integrations) [fee]

Mobile app development

Ganz Chockalingam at Qualcomm Institute has a group that provides this [fee]

Support for vectorizing code

• SDSC Consulting [fee]

Workflow assistance

• Ilkay Altintas’ Workflow for Data Science (WORDS) Center for Excellence [fee]

Support for “cloudification” (moving existing environments, servers, etc into the cloud)

• SDSC Consulting [fee]
• Research IT Services [no cost]

Technical support (beyond desktop support)

• Research IT Services [no cost]
• SDSC Consulting [fee]
• Data Science Hub – data science consulting
• (SIO) Scripps IT manages compute servers for research groups [fee]

General research software

Note: this list is not comprehensive. See also the faculty/staff software list.

• Qualtrics survey software [no cost]
• SPSS site license [no cost]
• Matlab site license [departments share cost]
• LucidChart site license
• (UC San Diego Health) ACTRI supports software for managing clinical trials and observational studies, as well as tools to query clinical records.

Visualization and analysis

• Tableau (server site license only) [fee for user license]
• SDSC SUAVE
• ACTRI Tableau and R Server for users in the Virtual Research Desktop (VRD environment)
  • VRD info
• LucidChart site license
• (UC San Diego Health) The Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CCBB) provides analysis in genomics technologies including Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) and the interpretation of genomics data, and analysis and consultation on epigenomics.
• (UC San Diego Health) Biostatistics faculty and staff advise and collaborate with ACTRI researchers on biostatistics, bioinformatics, and epidemiology. In addition to common statistical tools, expertise is offered in areas including reproducible research reporting, R Bioconductor, and high-performance computing.

Technology training 

• The Carpentries (Software, Data, HPC Carpentry) courses [fee]
• Library-offered (open to all areas) research tool training [no fee]
• Library online tutorials [no fee]
• Library’s LinkedIn Learning subscription - patrons can check out licenses to use [no fee]
• Staff Education Skillsoft online training [no fee] 

Tools to transfer datasets

• Library-provided (for all users) rdl-share tool [no cost]
• Research IT hypercluster data transfer nodes [no cost]
• Pacific Research Platform for very large data moves [no cost]

High-speed networking

• 10G, 40G production network lab connections [fee]
• Prism@UCSD research network [deprecated for new users]

Network performance analysis (if issues moving data)

• IT Services Service Desk (for production network) [no cost]
• SDSC (for SDSC/Colo network) [no cost]
• (UC San Diego Health) Health System IS Help Desk [no cost] 
• Research IT Services perfSONAR & other measurement tools [no cost]
• CAIDA Internet traffic analysis [no cost]

Data sharing space

• Library Digital Collections, Research Data Library [no cost]
• (SIO) GDC support for some researchers, or CCHDO for others 
• (SIO) Scripps IT provides web space for projects and research groups to share their data [no cost]
• Emerging (OSN) and already deployed (OSG StashCache) national data federation systems that UCSD could decide to link up with, or individual researchers could add their data to. [no cost at small volume]
• SDSC Universal Scale Storage for large-volume data [fee]
• SeedMeLab data sharing
• SDSC Cloud Storage [fee]

Project/lab websites

• Google Sites (not permitted by UCSD Health) [no cost]
• (SIO) Scripps IT provides web space for projects and research groups to share their data [no cost]

Presentation tools

• G Suite (incl. unlimited storage in Google Drive, Google Apps, Google Sites) [no cost]
• Microsoft Suite

Video development

• ITS Audio-Visual Services [fee]
• (UC San Diego Health) Health System IS https://hsreservations.ucsd.edu and https://uchealth.service-now.com/ess_ucsd/ [no cost]

Persistent data object identifiers

• Library-provided DOIs [no cost]

Persistent researcher ID

• ORCID [no cost]

Workspace to add metadata

• Library staging space [no cost]

Expert advice on metadata and data preparation/replicability

• Library Research Data Curation Program [no cost]
• Policy Design and Evaluation Lab Data Transparency Services Workflow [cost associated; best practices guidelines at no cost]
• (SIO) Expert advice for different areas of research is available through Karen Stocks, Steve Diggs, as well as the collection managers [no cost]

Long-term storage space for mutable data

• G Suite (incl. unlimited storage in Google Drive, Google Apps, Google Sites) [no cost]
• OneDrive for Business (1TB limit) [no cost]
• Open Science Framework [no cost]
• SDSC Universal Scale Storage [fee]
• SDSC Cloud Storage [fee]

Long-term preservation space

• Library-provided Chronopolis [potential cost]
• (SIO) Geological Data Center support for some researchers, or CLIVAR and Carbon Hydrographic Data Office (CCHDO) for others
• Cloud services (e.g. Amazon Glacier) [fee]
• eScholarship via UCOP [no cost]
• SDSC Cloud Storage [fee]