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Research by HeiGIT shows Clinical Trials related to Corona-virus
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Many informative maps
are available to follow the spread of COVID-19. This is important
information but only part of the story. The global scientific and
medical communities have immediately responded to the outbreak
with focused research activities. This has led to clinical trials
and scientific publications worldwide. The Heidelberg Institute
for Geoinformation Technology (<a href="http://heigit.org/"
target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;
text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom:
1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">HeiGIT</a>) at Heidelberg
University developed together with<span> </span><span
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><a
href="https://www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/personen/prof-apl-dr-dr-markus-ries-mhs-duke-univ-usa-fcp-670"
target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;
text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom:
1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">Markus Ries</a><span> </span></span><span
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">from the Center for
Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital
Heidelberg<span> </span></span>a<span> </span><strong
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><a
href="http://covid-19.heigit.org/" target="_blank"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;
color: rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153,
102, 51);">Map of COVID-19 Clinical Trials</a></strong>.</p>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><img
src="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/files/2020/03/screenshot-from-2020-03-23-19-42-041.png"
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<em style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Fig: Map of Clinical Trial
related to Covid-19 available at:<span> </span><a
href="https://covid-19.heigit.org/" target="_blank"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;
color: rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153,
102, 51);"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">https://covid-19.heigit.org/</strong></a></em></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px; line-height: 1.8em;
color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, verdana, tahoma,
arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Take a look at the “Map
of Hope” and get a geographical overview on planned, ongoing and
finished clinical trials related to COVID-19. The map shows the
location of clinical trials differentiated by study type. The time
slider allows to analyze when studies were registered at the
different (national) registries. The location of the studies is
accurate to the city level.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px; line-height: 1.8em;
color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, verdana, tahoma,
arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The information on
clinical trials is based on data from the<span> </span><a
href="https://apps.who.int/trialsearch/" target="_blank"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">WHO
Clinical Trials Search Portal</a><span> </span>about COVID-19
related clinical trials. The Clinical Trials Search Portal
provides access to a central database containing the trial
registration data sets provided by important international
registries. The WHO portal gets updated every Friday by six
important registries and every 4 weeks by additional registries.
We aim at updating our maps without too much delay.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px; line-height: 1.8em;
color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, verdana, tahoma,
arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Medical know-how comes
from<span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span> </span><a
href="https://www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/personen/prof-apl-dr-dr-markus-ries-mhs-duke-univ-usa-fcp-670"
target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;
text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom:
1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">Markus Ries</a>,<span> </span></span>data
pre-processing and the service deployment is performed by the<span> </span><a
href="https://heigit.org/geoinformation-for-humanitarian-aid/"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">HeiGIT
team members</a>. Geocoding was done using the<span> </span><a
href="http://openrouteservice.org/" target="_blank"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">openrouteservice
API</a>. This is a free to use service by HeiGIT for many
geographical applications such as geocoding, routing and
accessibility analysis. Please<span> </span><a
href="https://heigit.org/contact/" target="_blank"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">contact
us</a><span> </span>if you are interested in using it for your
research, especially if it is related to health and disaster
management.</p>
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color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, verdana, tahoma,
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widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">This is a first draft
prototype and work in progress, we are looking forward to your
comments and ideas. Any assistance welcome. Stay tuned and check
again for updates soon.</p>
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><a
href="https://covid-19.heigit.org/" target="_blank"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);"><strong
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">https://covid-19.heigit.org/</strong></a></p>
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Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf
GIScience Research Group Heidelberg University
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://uni-heidelberg.de/gis">http://uni-heidelberg.de/gis</a>
Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT gGmbH)
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