The Harvard Catalyst site is live and open

The name of the Harvard University Clinical and Translational Science Center is Catalyst. Several of its resources are publicly available. For example, you can now see the biomedical scholarly output of our university at a glance. You can find people, buildings, phone numbers, directions and parking across the entire University (!) with 18+ participating institutions. You can see the influenza risk across our local geography and recent history. You can explore which clinical trials are supported by the institutions across Catalyst. You can use Webdash to share web pages and publications and their citations with collaborators and colleagues. You can browse and search the available Core facilities (in the hundreds). And if you need analytic help you can reach out to the Catalyst biostatistics program and genetics program, for example. Within a year, we will reveal the data sharing function called SHRINE which allows authorized users to study patient populations (with regulatory oversight) for pharmacovigilance, and various clinical research projects (e.g genome-wide studies of asthma, major depression resistant to standard antidepressants).

This site is the collaborative effort of multiple informatics groups in our community, including HMS Center for Biomedical Informatics, HMS IT, and the IT groups of Partners Healthcare Systems, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Children's Hospital. It was an impressive 107 day dash bringing together diverse applications into one package. It's still rough and in progress and I would welcome your comments as would our Research Navigators.

Just some cocktail party conversation for you: Note the relative decline of protein research (relative to other topics) in the past decade at our University. The same indicators (gratifyingly) show the rise of mathematical topics in our life sciences scholarly output. Our most prolific author is Walt Willet (note the alternate ways his name appears each with its own publication history: to be fixed in the next iteration of Medvane). Note that JBC appears to be a popular journal for our authors to publish in.