Policies
Authorship
If the biostatistics, informatics or bioinformatics faculty and staff had substantial participation in the study design, analysis or interpretation of data, along with drafting portion of the manuscript, they will be included as a Co-Author on the manuscript. They will also be given the opportunity to review the final manuscript for approval prior to submission. This is in adherence to the guidelines set out by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.
Grant Acknowledgements
All manuscripts using the Bioinformatics Core service need to include the following statement in the acknowledgement section of the paper: "Statistical genomics and bioinformatics related analyses presented in this manuscript were performed by the K-INBRE Bioinformatics Core that is supported in part by the National Institute of General Medical Science award P20 GM103418."
Timeline for grant preparations applications
The strongest grant proposals are those in which the proposal team is assembled at least two four months before submission. Holding team meetings every three weeks or more often and having at least two major revisions of the proposal are optimal. When bioinformatics faculty or statistics faculty have sufficient time to do their best jobs, the likelihood of funding is significantly enhanced.
With rare exception, we cannot provide assistance with proposals without a minimum of 1 month advance notice. As the core faculty and staff are working on multiple projects, grant applications and teaching courses for KUMC at a given time, sufficient notice is needed to allocate the time needed for grant preparation. This includes time for meetings with the faculty member working on the grant preparation to go over the aims of the grant, study design, budgeting and any questions that might arise with the grant. It is also expected that the faculty member working on the grant will also be including on the grant with the appropriate FTE.
Use of bioinformatics and statisticians' names on proposal
The core does not allow an investigator to use the name of a Ph.D. or M.S. bioinformaticians or biostatisticians on a grant or contract proposal unless they have fully participated in the development of the proposal and can vouch for the study design, analysis workflows and analysis plan.