title: Biomedical informatics research network: building a national collaboratory to hasten the derivation of new understanding and treatment of disease.
abstract: Through support from the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Research Resources, the Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) is pioneering the use of advanced cyberinfrastructure for medical research. By synchronizing developments in advanced wide area networking, distributed computing, distributed database federation, and other emerging capabilities of e-science, the BIRN has created a collaborative environment that is paving the way for biomedical research and clinical information management. The BIRN Coordinating Center (BIRN-CC) is orchestrating the development and deployment of key infrastructure components for immediate and long-range support of biomedical and clinical research being pursued by domain scientists in three neuroimaging test beds.
authors.affiliation: BIRN Coordinating Center at the University of California San Diego, Center for Research on Biological Structure, La Jolla, CA 92093-0715, USA. jgrethe@ucsd.edu
authors.forename: Jeffrey S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Grethe
authors.forename: Chaitan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Baru
authors.forename: Amarnath
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: James
authors.forename: Bertram
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ludaescher
authors.forename: Maryann E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Martone
authors.forename: Philip M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Papadopoulos
authors.forename: Steven T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Peltier
authors.forename: Arcot
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rajasekar
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Santini
authors.forename: Ilya N
authors.initials: IN
authors.lastname: Zaslavsky
authors.forename: Mark H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Ellisman
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003199:Computer Systems; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D009422:Nervous System Diseases; D018511:Systems Integration; D014481:United States