# Introduction to PIC-SURE

Patient Information Commons: Standard Unification of Research Elements (PIC-SURE) is a platform that integrates clinical and genomic datasets from multiple data sources to allow researchers to search for data, apply filters, and explore data from selected cohorts of patients.

PIC-SURE can be explored on the demo site here: [https://nhanes.hms.harvard.edu/ ](https://nhanes.hms.harvard.edu/)

This site uses publicly available data to demonstrate key PIC-SURE functionality:

* National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
  * The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) collects data about the health of adults and children in the United States. Learn more at [the CDC's NHANES website here](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/about/index.html). 
* The 1000 Genomes Project
  * The 1000 Genomes Project created a catalogue of common human genetic variation, using openly consented samples from people who declared themselves to be healthy. Learn more at the [International Genome Sample Resource's 1000 Genomes website here](https://www.internationalgenome.org/). 
* Synthea
  * Synthea is an open-source, synthetic patient generator that models the medical history of synthetic patients. Learn more about [the Synthea dataset at their website here](https://synthetichealth.github.io/synthea/).