The National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBCs) are part of the U.S.
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...
plan to develop and implement the core of a universal computing infrastructure that is urgently needed to speed progress in biomedical research. Their mission is to create innovative software programs and other tools that will enable the biomedical community to integrate, analyze, model, simulate, and share data on human health and disease.
Recognizing the potential benefits to human health that can be realized from applying and advancing the field of biomedical computing, the Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative (BISTI) was launched at the
NIH
The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...
in April 2000. This initiative is aimed at making optimal use of computer science and technology to address problems in biology and medicine. The full text of the original BISTI Report is available.
As of April 2016, the web site for the National Centers for Biomedical Computing (
http://www.ncbcs.org) is no longer managed by that organization, though many of the centers still are supported.
Current Centers
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Center for Computational Biology
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National Center for Biomedical Ontology The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) is one of the National Centers for Biomedical Computing, and is funded by the NIH. Among the goals of the NCBO are to provide tools for discovery and access of biomedical ontologies, which are a t ...
Simbios: Physics-based Simulation of Biological Structures Stanford University
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National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics
National Center for Multi-Scale Study of Cellular Networks* National Alliance for Medical Imaging Computing
See also
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Biositemaps A Biositemap is a way for a biomedical research institution of organisation to show how biological information is distributed throughout their Information Technology systems and networks. This information may be shared with other organisations and r ...
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Biomedical Computation Review'', a quarterly magazine created by Simbios to help build community among the diverse disciplines that participate in the field.
External links
NIH Roadmap National Centers for Biomedical Computing archive.org
National Center for Multi-Scale Study of Cellular NetworksNational Alliance for Medical Imaging Computing
Genomics
Proteomics
Medical research institutes in the United States
Bioinformatics organizations
National Institutes of Health
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