Data Standards

Wastewater Data Standards

The SF-RAD group developed metadata and data standard specifications to describe the wastewater samples and the analysis data. The standards specification include the RADx-RAD DCC data dictionaries as adopted from the CDC NWSS data. The data categories are organized as follows:

Field-Related Information

Wastewater Pre-Processing

Wastewater Analysis

Human Health Data Standards

In addition to the minimum CDEs, as required by the NIH to describe the prospective human health studies, the SF-RAD group has established standards specification related to the COVID-19 relevant information.

All the SF-RAD standards are curated into

This collaborative study between the University of Miami in Florida and Weill Cornell Medicine in New York will generate, standardize, integrate, compare and make available to the RADx-rad Data Coordination Center (DCC), SARS-CoV-2 human surveillance and wastewater quantification data with various sampling, processing, detection, and analysis approaches.

UM has also initiated a pilot wastewater monitoring program to quantify the RNA of SARS-CoV-2 in effluents from building clusters on its three campuses.

Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) has established an international consortium for SARS-CoV-2 environmental surveillance (MetaSUB), including developing a metagenomic map of wastewater from cities around the world.

The project will make all data, results, and models available to the community, thus providing a critical contribution to the national SARS-COV-2 RADx-rad Wastewater Detection Consortium.

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Wastewater Data Standards

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