About
Interested in partnering with REDI-NET? Please email: redinet@nd.edu.
What is the REDI-NET?
- The Remote Emerging Disease Intelligence-NETwork (REDI-NET) is a collaborative consortium among academic, government and non-governmental institutions with the objective to effectively DETECT, PREDICT and CONTAIN circulating pathogens that pose risk to human and/or animal health. The consortium leverages broad expertise to coordinate, integrate pre-existing and novel, real-time domestic and international surveillance efforts for a comprehensive look at known and emerging pathogens.
How does REDI-NET Work?
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Gold reach-back partners have developed and validated field sampling and laboratory testing SOPs for robust surveillance based on metagenomic pathogen screening.
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Silver and Bronze partners implement REDI-NET SOPs and use an automated REDI-NET Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Analysis Platform to characterize circulating pathogens in varied environmental ecologies.
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Data capture in the field and laboratory occurs with custom-developed REDI-NET mobile and web-based apps with built-in functionality for quality control.
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Digital, quality-controlled, field and laboratory metadata is electronically merged and managed within a centralized REDI-NET Data Portal for near-real time visualization and reporting of exposure risk to circulating pathogen(s) - the REDI-NET e-MERGE System.
What is the Relevance of REDI-NET?
- A lack of capacity at the source of surveillance can cause delays in processing, testing, and data output generation, leading to delays in risk mitigation.
- The REDI-NET consortium broadens global surveillance efforts by incorporating new technologies, ecologies and sample types.
- The REDI-NET automated NGS Analysis Platform provides a new computing substrate that links metagenomic results with confirmed microorganism outputs for each sample for use by non-specialists.
- The REDI-NET e-MERGE System improves the accuracy and timeliness of ‘data-to decision’.
- The REDI-NET Data Portal is adaptable and scalable to the needs of future surveillance efforts.