University of Maryland Baltimore ICTR (UMB ICTR) Enrichment Series
Using Omics in Biomedical Research & Data Asset Management in the Era of Collaborative Science

Speakers:
Huichun Xu, MD, PhD
Associate Director, UMB ICTR Biostatistics Core
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Patrick McArdle, MD, PhD
Associate Director, ICTR Informatics Core
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Secondary Appointment: Epidemiology & Public Health
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Using Omics in Biomedical Research
This presentation provides an overview of major omics modalities used in biomedical research, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and epigenomics, highlighting the biological questions it can address, common experimental platforms, and key analytical workflows. The goal is to build a conceptual understanding of how omics approaches can be used in broad research projects, and to illustrate the types of analytical support available through the
ICTR biostatistics core.

Data Asset Management in the Era of Collaborative Science
This presentation outlines an architectural approach that allows researchers to reuse data across projects without rebuilding everything and how a transparent, governed process replaces messy, one-off exports to ensure quality and comparability. It explains, at a high level, how data are pulled from study systems, labs, and -omics pipelines, how raw data are preserved and transformed to create reliable, analysis-ready datasets, and how they are stored in a structured warehouse with consistent definitions to support quick, trusted analyses. This is an ICTR-supported service.