The UW Departments of Biological Structure and of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics have received a $1.8 million grant from the National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, to plan for a National Center of Excellence in Biomedical Computing. The grant is part of the NIH Biomedical Information Science Technology Initiative.
The center will explore the physical structure of the body as an organizing principle for information in the basic medical sciences. Co-principal investigators are Jim Brinkley, research professor of biological structure and of medical education and biomedical informatics, and Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, associate professor of pediatrics and head of the Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
As part of the planning, the investigators are seeking basic science researchers who have information management needs that might be met by the tools being developed under this grant. With these needs in mind, Brinkley, Tarczy-Hornoch and colleagues will work with computer scientists and informaticists to develop structure-based experiment management systems for biological data, to integrate diverse data types through distributed ontologies, and to share distributed data via peer-data-management systems.
For more information go to the structural informatics group Web site.
March 14, 2003