title: The NIH National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics (NCIBI).
abstract: The National Center for Integrative and Biomedical Informatics (NCIBI) is one of the eight NCBCs. NCIBI supports information access and data analysis for biomedical researchers, enabling them to build computational and knowledge models of biological systems to address the Driving Biological Problems (DBPs). The NCIBI DBPs have included prostate cancer progression, organ-specific complications of type 1 and 2 diabetes, bipolar disorder, and metabolic analysis of obesity syndrome. Collaborating with these and other partners, NCIBI has developed a series of software tools for exploratory analysis, concept visualization, and literature searches, as well as core database and web services resources. Many of our training and outreach initiatives have been in collaboration with the Research Centers at Minority Institutions (RCMI), integrating NCIBI and RCMI faculty and students, culminating each year in an annual workshop. Our future directions include focusing on the TranSMART data sharing and analysis initiative.
authors.affiliation: Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. bleu@umich.edu
authors.forename: Brian D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Athey
authors.forename: James D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Cavalcoli
authors.forename: H V
authors.initials: HV
authors.lastname: Jagadish
authors.forename: Gilbert S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Omenn
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mirel
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kretzler
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Burant
authors.forename: Raphael D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Isokpehi
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: DeLisi
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D019992:Databases as Topic; D005544:Forecasting; D006040:Goals; D033181:Information Dissemination; D055048:Integrative Medicine; D008490:Medical Informatics; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D014481:United States
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