NICLS: Development of Biomedical Computing and Information Technology Infrastructure

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NICLS Development of Biomedical Computing and
Information Technology Infrastructure
Presented by Simon Sherman August 15, 2005
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• NICLS was established by the Nebraska Board of
  Regents in October, 2001
• The Center has three member institutions UNL,
  UNMC, and UNO. CU is an academic partner of the
  Center
• Presently, more 44 faculty members from the three
  UN campuses and CU are participating in the work
  of NICLS

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Mission Statement

• Facilitate interdisciplinary (Mathematics,
  Computer Science, Information Technology,
  Molecular Biology, Genetics, Biochemistry,
  Pharmaceutical Science, etc.) collaboration among
  Nebraska's scientists
• Provide Nebraska's researchers, educators, and
  students with efficient access to Bioinformatics
  tools and to a growing number of databases on
  biologically important molecules
• Enhance the competitiveness (and thus the
  ability to attract extramural funding) of ongoing
  and future research programs in Nebraska

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Computing Infrastructure
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www.nicls.net
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Computing Infrastructure
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Bioinformatics Educational and Training
Laboratory at the Scott Technology Center, Omaha
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Examples of Infrastructure Development
Activities

• Intel-based multiprocessor clusters at UNMC, UNL,
  UNO and CU were set up and maintained
• 1 Gb high-speed fiber-optic communication line
  between four campuses was laid
• The Computational Chemistry Facility and
  Bioinformatics Research Laboratory at UNO, as
  well as Bioinformatics Shared Resource at UNL and
  UNMC were established

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Examples of Educational Activities

• Workshop, DNA Microarray Analyses, was
  organized
• Short course on Bioinformatics was organized
• Exhibitions and conferences, "Bioinformatics and
  Biomedical Computing in Nebraska" were organized
  in Omaha in 2003, 2004, and 2005
• Annual Hawaii International Conference On System
  Sciences Advanced Computational Approaches and IT
  Techniques in Bioinformatics (Bioinformatics
  Minitrack of the Software Technology Track) has
  been organized in 2004 and 2005

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INBRE Content Management and Information Sharing
System (INBRE CMISS)
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SOURCES OF EXTERNAL FUNDING

• NIH Cancer Center Support Grant
• NIH COBRE Nebraska Center for Viral
  Pathogenesis
• NIH BRIN Nebraska Training Network in Functional
  Genomics
• NRI Nebraska Research Initiative.

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Future Directions

• Upgrade existing Bioinformatics Infrastructure by
  adding new clusters and data storage and by
  linking the clusters at UNMC, UNL, UNO and CU to
  form the Nebraska Biomedical Computer Grid
• Deploy and disseminate Bioinformatics approaches,
  LIMS and Content Management and Information
  Sharing Systems for the use in the Life Science
  Core Facilities and laboratories