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GOAL OF THE CENTER The goal of the Center is to support biomedical researchers in their knowledge-intensive work, by providing online tools and a Web portal enabling them to access, review, and integrate disparate information resources in all aspects of biomedical investigation and clinical practice. A major focus of their work involves the use of biomedical ontologies to aid in the management and analysis of data derived from complex experiments. PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS Stanford University Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory University at Buffalo Mayo Clinic University of Cambridge University of Oregon University of California, San Francisco University of Victoria ORGANIZATION OF THE CENTER The Center is organized into six core components:
The computer-science research in Core 1 aims to deliver tools for accessing and unifying ontologies, and Core 2 will concentrate on creating tools for using these ontologies to annotate large biomedical data sets, enabling data-set analysis and integration. The Center seeks to achieve its objectives by advancing standards of good practice and by creating tools and theories that support a wide range of driving biological projects and collaborative research activities, and by training computational biologists, specialists in informatics, and computer scientists in the use of ontologies and of the Center's technologies in support of their research. DRIVING BIOLOGICAL PROJECTS Two Driving Biological Projects involve investigation of model-organism databases ( Flybase and ZFIN ), while the third involves analysis of data stored in TrialBank . NATIONAL CENTERS FOR BIOMEDICAL COMPUTING The Center is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and is part of the network of National Centers for Biomedical Computing . SEE ALSO |
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