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DeGAUSS is a decentralized method for geocoding and deriving community and individual level environmental characteristics while maintaining the privacy of protected health information. It is a standalone and versatile software application based on containerization. This means that geomarker assessment is reproducible, standardized, and can be computed on at scale. Importantly, DeGAUSS is executable on a local machine -- it does not require extensive computational resources and PHI is never exposed to a third party or the internet, making it ideal for geomarker assessment in a multi-site study. Please see detailed documentation within the wiki:

• A background on geocoding, geomarkers, and private health information
• Installing Docker
• Reproducibility and Versioning
• Geocoding with DeGAUSS
• Geomarker Assessment with DeGAUSS
• Troubleshooting
• Memoisation