Analytic Core

分析核心由Andrew Hoofnagle执导，Dan Raftery担任副核心总监， Discovery Metabolomics Subcore的负责人。此核心的主要功能是提供关联 研究人员（AI）拥有尖端的分析检测，支持基础和临床研究需求， NORC服务的社区。 Analytic Core和Discovery Metabolomics Subcore的具体目标是： 具体目标1：为认可机构提供高质素及具成本效益的化验服务。 具体目标2：响应实验室开发、验证和优化的人工智能需求 用于营养和肥胖研究的测试，涉及人类和动物标本。 具体目标3：与认可机构合作，优化样本收集和储存以及分析平台 和工作流。 中心以极具成本效益的方式提供全面、先进的服务， 发展专门为认可机构而设的专门测试（直接服务），并为认可机构提供渠道， 华盛顿大学（UW）其他地方提供的实验室服务（间接服务）。通过处理 在整个UW系统中，核心为转诊到临床实验室提供物流服务， 范围更广，成本效益更高， 如果分析核心作为一个单独的单元运行，只执行直接测试，那么这是可能的。 为满足认可机构要求进行化验的需要，我们会回应有关化验的直接要求， 预测未来的需求和研究方向，积极帮助认可机构制定与研究有关的决策， 设计和方法，并通过开发新的检测方法，采用新技术， 发展研究需要建立和/或促进分析的获取。

The Analytic Core is directed by Andrew Hoofnagle with Dan Raftery as the Associate Core Director and Director of the Discovery Metabolomics Subcore. The primary function of this Core is to provide Affiliate Investigators (AIs) with cutting-edge analytic assays that support the basic and clinical research needs of the community served by the NORC. The Specific Aims for the Analytic Core and the Discovery Metabolomics Subcore are: Specific Aim 1: To provide access to high-quality, cost-effective laboratory testing for AIs. Specific Aim 2: To respond to AI needs for the development, validation, and optimization of laboratory tests used in nutrition and obesity research involving human and animal specimens. Specific Aim 3: To work with AIs to optimize specimen collection and storage as well as assay platforms and workflows. Comprehensive, state-of-the-art services are provided by the Core in a highly cost-effective fashion both by developing specialized tests specifically for AIs (direct services) and by serving as a conduit for AIs to access laboratory services offered elsewhere at the University of Washington (UW) (indirect services). By handling logistics for referrals to clinical laboratories throughout the UW system, the Core seamlessly provides services that are broader in scope than would otherwise be available in a manner that is much more cost-effective than would be possible if the Analytic Core operated as an isolated unit that performs only direct testing. To meet the need for laboratory testing requested by AIs, we respond to direct requests for assays while also anticipating future needs and research directions by actively helping AIs to shape decisions related to study design and methodology and by developing new assays, incorporating new technologies, and performing the developmental research needed to establish and/or facilitate access to analyses.