"Columbus Children's Research Institute is dedicated to improve the lives of children everywhere"

The C3 Bioinformatics Group, under the direction of Dr. Stephen J. Qualman, director for Center of Childhood Cancer, is a bioinformatics application development team dedicated to increasing cure rates and decreasing side effects in therapy through Information Technology. It is a service oriented group whose main function is to develop specific software systems and applications which provide the informatics support related to the biospecimen banking initiatives, relating to the BioPathology Center and cooperative group associated projects.

The Group will contribute to the development, management and promotion of effective practices in collection, storage, management, analysis and reporting of information about services funded by the department. It will assist program areas in the division and agencies funded by the department to define their data requirements and develop data standards; promoting the value of sound information management principles and practices to support business activities. It will perform a critical role in planning and coordinating delivery of information management projects.