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The '''Centers for Disease Control and Prevention''' ('''CDC''') is the national public health institute of the United States. The CDC is a federal agency under the [[United States Department of Health and Human Services|Department of Health and Human Services]] and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Its main goal is to protect public health and safety through the control and prevention of disease, injury, and disability. The CDC focuses national attention on developing and applying disease control and prevention. It especially focuses its attention on infectious disease, food borne pathogens, environmental health, occupational safety and health, health promotion, injury prevention, and educational activities designed to improve the health of United States citizens. The CDC combats emerging diseases and other health risks, including birth defects, West Nile virus, avian influenza, swine influenza, pandemic flu, E. coli, and bioterrorism, to name a few. In addition, the CDC researches and provides information on non-infectious diseases such as obesity and diabetes and is a founding member of the International Association of National Public Health Institutes.
A '''[[scientific data management system]]''' (SDMS) is a piece or package of software that acts as a document management system (DMS), capturing, cataloging, and archiving data generated by [[laboratory]] instruments ([[HPLC]], [[mass spectrometry]]) and applications ([[LIMS]], analytical applications, [[electronic laboratory notebook]]s) in a compliant manner. The SDMS also acts as a gatekeeper, serving platform-independent data to informatics applications and/or other consumers.


The CDC has one of the few biosafety level 4 laboratories in the country, as well as one of only two official repositories of smallpox in the world. The second smallpox store resides at the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology VECTOR in the Russian Federation. ('''[[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|Full article...]]''')<br />
As with many other [[laboratory informatics]] tools, the lines between a [[LIMS]], [[ELN]], and an SDMS are at times blurred. However, there are some essential qualities that an SDMS owns that distinguishes it from other informatics systems. It's built to handle unstructured, mostly heterogeneous data; it typically acts as a seamless "wrapper" for other data systems like LIMS and ELN in the laboratory; and it is designed primarily for data consolidation, knowledge management, and knowledge asset realization. An SDMS also must be focused on increasing research productivity without sacrificing data sharing and collaboration efforts. ('''[[Scientific data management system|Full article...]]''')<br />
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''Recently featured'': [[Histopathology]], [[Clinical chemistry]], [[Desktop virtualization]]
''Recently featured'': [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]], [[Histopathology]], [[Clinical chemistry]]

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A scientific data management system (SDMS) is a piece or package of software that acts as a document management system (DMS), capturing, cataloging, and archiving data generated by laboratory instruments (HPLC, mass spectrometry) and applications (LIMS, analytical applications, electronic laboratory notebooks) in a compliant manner. The SDMS also acts as a gatekeeper, serving platform-independent data to informatics applications and/or other consumers.

As with many other laboratory informatics tools, the lines between a LIMS, ELN, and an SDMS are at times blurred. However, there are some essential qualities that an SDMS owns that distinguishes it from other informatics systems. It's built to handle unstructured, mostly heterogeneous data; it typically acts as a seamless "wrapper" for other data systems like LIMS and ELN in the laboratory; and it is designed primarily for data consolidation, knowledge management, and knowledge asset realization. An SDMS also must be focused on increasing research productivity without sacrificing data sharing and collaboration efforts. (Full article...)

Recently featured: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Histopathology, Clinical chemistry

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