Biomedical Informatics Research Network

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Biomedical Informatics Research
Network (BIRN) Greg Farber NCRR/NIH
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Agenda for Today
1) Introductions by Elaine Collier and Greg
Farber (NCRR) 2) Infrastructure and the BDR
Jeff Grethe (UCSD) 3) Tools/Use Cases from the
Testbeds Jessica Turner Function BIRN (UC
Irvine) Karl Helmer Morphometry BIRN
(MGH) Jyl Boline Mouse BIRN (UCLA) 4) Use Case
from Outside the Testbeds Matthew McAuliffe
NDAR (CIT, NIH)
BIRN
CTSA
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Data Sharing

• Over the past 10 years, the human genome
  sequencing project and the Protein Data Bank have
  clearly demonstrated the value of sharing data
  among the research community.
• Recognizing the value of sharing data, NIH
  requires all awards over 500,000 to include a
  data sharing plan as part of an application
  (NOT-OD-03-032).
• While text based data can usually be easily
  shared from a centralized facility, the same is
  not true of other biomedical research data
  (imaging, microarray, )

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NIH Infrastructure to Facilitate Data Sharing

• Recognizing that complex biomedical research
  data required a different model for sharing
  (federated versus centralized) and that the best
  strategy for sharing data was still an open
  research question, NIH started two large data
  sharing infrastructures BIRN (http//www.nbirn.n
  et ) and caBIG (http//cabig.cancer.gov/index.asp
  ).
• The two programs have some similarities and some
  differences. Both are now available for use by
  the biomedical research community.

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BIRN Builds on NSF Infrastructure
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BIRN is Being Developed at Many Sites
Morph BIRN Bruce Rosen Mass General
Mouse BIRN Arthur Toga UCLA
NDAR CIT/NIH
Function BIRN Steven Potkin UC Irvine
BIRN Coordinating Center Mark Ellisman UCSD
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BIRN Researchers
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The BIRN Infrastructure is now available

• We expect that there are roughly three different
  groups that might be interested in the BIRN
  Infrastructure
• BIRN in a Box
• Collaborations that would make use of the tools
  in developed under the current BIRN test beds.
• BIRN Data Repository to Store and Share your
  Imaging Based Datasets.

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Financial Resources

• Researchers who are interested in using the BIRN
  or caBIG infrastructures to share their data have
  two good options
• CTSA Informatics Pilot Projects (NOT-RR-07-012)
• Tool and Data Sharing RFA

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More Information

• Technical assistance workshop October 18, 2007
  on the NIH Campus for details see
  http//www.nbirn.net
• Discussions with the BIRN PIs or Project Managers
• Discussions with NIH staff (Elaine Collier or
  Greg Farber or caBIG staff)

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Contact Information
NIH Staff Greg Farber farberg_at_mail.nih.gov
301-435-0778 Elaine Collier - colliere_at_mail.nih.go
v 301-435-0794 BIRN PIs Mark Ellisman
mark_at_ncmir.ucsd.edu 858-534-2251 Steven Potkin
sgpotkin_at_uci.edu 949-824-8040 Bruce Rosen
bruce_at_nmr.mgh.harvard.edu 617-726-5122 Arthur
Toga toga_at_loni.ucla.edu 310-206-2101