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ATR Data Index Project Overview

The ATR maintains a registry of twins in Australia that have volunteered to be contacted for participation in medical studies or to have their details recorded in their database. Requests are made by researchers to use the registry for research. These requests are reviewed to ensure that the researchers' activities satisfy ethical guidelines and are of sufficicient value in the area of proposed research to warrent acceptance.
 
With more than 31,000 pairs of twins, the ATR is the largest volunteer registry of its kind in the world. The company has identified an inability for researchers to acquire results from past studies to facilitate their current/future research. This is due to a lack of a search resources that would enable them to retrive these results. The goal of the ATR is to one day produce a comprehensive searchable index of all the studies conducted by researchers who have used the ATR to find participants. The aim of our project for the time being is a stopgap measure until the ATR can gather the resources and acquire approval from researchers to implement the complete solution.
 
In undertaking this project Hexovation will be using non-sensitive data collected from requests for twin participants and updates from researchers on their study status. Our solution will be implemented from this set of data to give researchers some reference to completed studies that interest them. The solution will come in the form of a search function for the studies provided through the ATR's existing website. Additionally, the project will entail training the ATR staff to maintain and update the database of studies after we have implemented the search index.
 
The ATR hopes that this project will help generate the support of possible sponsors and produce an overall desire for the project to bloom into a complete solution to the search function. In the future the ATR hopes to receive continued funding for its operations by continually providing their current invaluable services to researchers as well as providing new innovative services such as this project.