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]

Development of demos/proofs of concept

• Research IT Services  [no cost]

Document collaboration

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

Collaborative conversation

• Zoom:
  • Campus [no cost]
  • UC San Diego Health (login)

Data workspace & storage

• SDSC: Cloud, project, universal scale [fee]
• UC San Diego Health:  Health System IS - USER K:drive (login) 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:  Storage [fee] or manages lab storage servers [fee]

CPU/GPU to process data

• SDSC: National supercomputing resources [no cost w/ACCESS allocation], email consult@sdsc.edu 
• SDSC: Triton Shared Computing Cluster (TSCC) – HPC cluster condo/hotel  [fee]
• Research IT:  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:
  
  • Citrix XenApp – through Health IS (request access via the Health Service Now website (login)
• UC San Diego Health Health IS offers department (25TB) /lab disk shares (login)  [5TB no cost; additional storage for fee]

Regulated data storage and compute

• SDSC: Sherlock   [fee]
• UC San Diego Health: Health System IS hosting offering (login) [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: 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:  Colocation facility  [no cost or fee, depending on needs]
• UCSD Health: Information Services   Hosting (login) [no cost or fee, depending on needs]

General research software

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

• Campus: Qualtrics survey software [no cost]
• Campus: SPSS site license [no cost]
• Campus: Matlab site license [departments share cost]
• Campus: 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

• Campus: Tableau (server site license only)  [fee for user license]
• SDSC: SUAVE
• ACTRI: Virtual Research Desktop
  • VRD info
• Campus: 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 

• Research IT: The Carpentries (Software, Data, HPC Carpentry) courses [fee]
• Library: research tool training  [no fee]
• Library: online tutorials  [no fee]

Tools to transfer datasets

• Library: rdl-share tool [no cost]
• Research IT: email hypercluster data transfer nodes [no cost]
• Pacific Research Platform for very large data moves [no cost]

High-speed networking

• Campus: 10G, 40G production network lab connections  [fee]

Network performance analysis (if issues moving data)

• Campus: IT Services Service Desk (for production network) [no cost]
• SDSC: 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: Geological Data Center (GDC) support for some researchers , or CLIVAR and Carbon Hydrographic Data Office (CCHDO)  for others 
• SIO: provides web space for projects and research groups to share their data  [no cost]
• SDSC: Universal Scale Storage for large-volume data [fee]
• SeedMeLab data sharing
• SDSC: Cloud Storage [fee]

Project/lab websites

• Campus: Google Sites  (not permitted by UCSD Health) [no cost]
• SIO:  Web space for projects and research groups to share their data [no cost]

Presentation tools

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

Video development

• Campus:  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:  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]

Long-term storage space for mutable data

• Campus: G Suite (incl. unlimited storage in Google Drive, Google Apps, Google Sites)  [no cost]
• Campus: 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: Chronopolis [potential cost]
• SIO: Geological Data Center support for some researchers , or CLIVAR and Carbon Hydrographic Data Office (CCHDO) for others
• Campus: Cloud services (e.g. Amazon Glacier) [fee]
• UCOP: eScholarship  [no cost]
• SDSC:  Cloud Storage [fee]