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. 2012 Mar-Apr;19(2):166-70.
doi: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000552. Epub 2011 Nov 19.

The NIH National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics (NCIBI)

Brian D Athey  1 , James D Cavalcoli, H V Jagadish, Gilbert S Omenn, Barbara Mirel, Matthias Kretzler, Charles Burant, Raphael D Isokpehi, Charles DeLisi; NCIBI faculty, trainees, and staff
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The NIH National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics (NCIBI)

Brian D Athey et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2012 Mar-Apr.

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.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
The overall vision of the National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics is to apply novel methods of deep multiscale data integration, linked with analytic tools, to enhance biomedical research. Driving Biological Problems (DBPs) use the integrated environment of data and information to accelerate the creation of new knowledge.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Metscape (a Cytoscape plugin) used to visualize high and low capacity runners' metabolites after 10 min of exercise (http://metscape.ncibi.org/).
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