1. IDI-BD2K
Increasing diversity in Interdisciplinary Big Data to Knowledge
NIH 1R25MD (09/25/2015 – 06/30/2020)
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Patricia ordóñez, phd

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University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras Campus College of Natural Sciences
The University of Puerto Rico (UPR) is a public multilevel system with eleven units throughout the Island. All campuses are accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Universities. UPR is a member of the Hispanic-American Colleges and Universities (HACU).
The Rio Piedras Campus (UPR-RP) is the largest and most multidisciplinary campus of the system, featuring the most extensive research and library resources.
Top baccalaureate source for Hispanics who go on to earn PhDs in Science (NSF )
Fourth highest source of Hispanics PhDs in S&E (NSF ).
The College of Natural Sciences (CNS) of UPRRP enrolls about 2800 undergraduates pursuing degrees in Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Sciences, General Sciences, Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, and Programs in Nutrition and Interdisciplinary Sciences. About 300 graduate students pursue Master’s degrees in Biology, Math, Physics, and Chemistry and Ph.D. degrees in Biology, Chemical Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics.
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IDI- BD2K Goals
Increase Diversity of BD2K Research Community for both student and faculty populations
Increase Biomedical Big Data Research on campus
Increase Interdisciplinary Research on campus
Provide Interdisciplinary Biomedical Big Data research experiences at top BD2K research institutions
Focus on recruiting undergraduate students early in their sophomore year and taking them along a specific course sequence that will prepare them for research in Big Data.
Specific tracks depend on academic background so that by their junior year students have attained complementary levels of knowledge and are able to collaborate in solving problems involving Big Data in interdisciplinary teams.
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4. Collaborating BD2K Centers
Patient-Centered Information Commons Harvard University Medical School
Center for Causal Modeling and Discovery of Biomedical Knowledge from Big Data University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh
Center for Big Data in Translational Genomics University of California Santa Cruz
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5. IDI- BD2K Student Development
Focus on recruiting undergraduate students early in their sophomore year and taking them along a specific course sequence that will prepare them for research in Big Data.
Specific tracks depend on academic background so that by their junior year students have attained complementary levels of knowledge and are able to collaborate in solving problems involving Big Data in interdisciplinary teams.
Along the way create experiences for people to feel welcome and comfortable learning to collaborate with people from different disciplines and universities while solving problems in health creatively using computation through hackathons and workshops. Here we see students working with mentors from academia and industry at the opening Hacking Health in the Caribbean hackathon in November 20-22, 2015.
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6. IDI-BD2K Faculty Development
Open to full-time faculty members of the College of Natural Sciences and their collaborators.
Activities:
Workshops, seminars and hackathons (as participants and/or mentors)
Short sabbaticals, summer research experiences, workshops and other activities at the collaborating BD2K centers.
A call for funding faculty developmental activities will be done once a year.
Candidates should submit a description of their proposed work or activity with a justification explaining how the activity aligns with the goals of the IDI-BD2K.
Priority will be given to (1) projects that strengthen the collaboration with BD2K Centers and (2) junior faculty that show the need to develop their Big Data research projects at UPR-RP.
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7. Course Sequence for Undergraduates
After completing their course sequences, selected students will attend summer internships at participant BD2K centers. On return, they will be expected to participate in undergraduate research projects in interdisciplinary teams with local mentors.
Students will also be exposed to other activities, including workshops, seminars, hackathons, and conferences where they will be trained to develop scientific and professional skills. They will also receive mentoring on their future careers.
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8. Biomedical Big Data (BBD) Courses
Interdisciplinary cohorts and affiliates will converge in a course sequence in Biomedical Big Data (BBD) consisting of two courses, based on the MOOC developed by Rafael Irizarry (Harvard School of Public Health).
BBD1: Introduction to Biomedical Big Data Introduction to Big Data using problems in the Biomedical field. It will include a revision of descriptive and basic inferential statistics using R, some elements of R programming, and introduction to matrix algebra.  
BBD2: Tools for Analysis of Biomedical Big Data More advanced concepts like linear models, multiple testing, prediction, etc., which will be required for the analysis of higher dimensional data sets.
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Some Accomplishments
BBD1 course offered twice and BBD2 offered once
The first cohort of students interned at our partner BD2K centers last summer (10 students, all of Hispanic origin, 7 women)
58 students on mailing list
Seven students have registered for BBD1 course.
Hacking Health in the Caribbean on November 2015 as part of Symposium of Health Informatics in Latin America and the Caribbean - over 135 researchers and students participated
Several professional seminars and a workshop on Causal Discovery
BBD courses were offered as pilot projects and now as courses
The first cohort of students are participating in summer programs at our partner BD2K centers (10 students, all of Hispanic origin, 7 women)
As a result of recruitment efforts, 58 students have manifested their interest in the program. Eight students have registered for BBD1 course.
A Hackathon sponsored by IDI-BD2K (Hacking Health in the Caribbean) was organized as part of the Symposium of Health Informatics in Latin America and the Caribbean (SHILAC) on November Over 135 researchers and students participated in the hackathon.
Several seminars and a workshop on Causal Discovery have been organized.
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10. Greatest Accomplishment IMHO
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Future Work
Three students participating in Quantitative Biology Workshop at MIT in January 2017
Seminar and a workshop on Causal Discovery in January 2017
Offer BBD2 course in the spring 2017
Replicathon and Data Carpentry Workshop in March 2017
Continue with monthly professional activities
Possibly Data Science or Big Data Certification
Datathon in academic year
BBD courses were offered as pilot projects and now as courses
The first cohort of students are participating in summer programs at our partner BD2K centers (10 students, all of Hispanic origin, 7 women)
As a result of recruitment efforts, 58 students have manifested their interest in the program. Eight students have registered for BBD1 course.
A Hackathon sponsored by IDI-BD2K (Hacking Health in the Caribbean) was organized as part of the Symposium of Health Informatics in Latin America and the Caribbean (SHILAC) on November Over 135 researchers and students participated in the hackathon.
Several seminars and a workshop on Causal Discovery have been organized.
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Key Personnel
Principal Investigators
José E. García Arrarás, Department of Biology, UPRRP
Patricia Ordóñez, Department of Computer Science, UPRRP
María-Eglée Pérez, Department of Mathematics, UPRRP
Other Key Personnel
Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga, Department of Computer Science, UPRRP
Luis Raúl Pericchi, Department of Mathematics, UPRRP
Rafael Irizarry, Harvard School of Public Health
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13. Additional IDI-BD2K Participating Faculty/Mentors
Ioannis Koutis, Department of Computer Science, UPRRP
Remi Maigret, Department of Computer Science, UPRRP
Steve E. Massey, Department of Biology, UPRRP
Miguel A. Acevedo, Department of Biology, UPRRP
Abiel Roche, UPR Medical Sciences Campus
José Conde, UPR Medical Sciences Campus
Filipa Godoy-Vitorino, Department of Biology, Inter-American University, Metro Campus.
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Questions or Comments?
Patricia Ordóñez, Department of Computer Science, UPRRP
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