News

BIRN’s Pathology Paper accepted for HealthGrid 2012 March 22, 2012

BIRN is happy to announce another paper accepted for HealthGrid 2012. The Pathology project is a joint effort between BIRN and the California and Oregon […]


XNAT Workshop in St. Louis June 25-29 March 6, 2012

The 2012 XNAT Workshop will be held in St. Louis, MO, on the Washington University School of Medicine campus June 25-29. Registration is now open.


BIRN’s CTSI Short Imaging Profile Paper accepted for HealthGrid 2012 February 28, 2012

As a result of BIRN’s work with Clinical Translational Science Institutes (CTSIs) at USC and UCI, a paper was written and accepted by HealthGrid 2012. […]


LONI Pipeline Workshop with BIRN Genomics capability in Cincinnati on March 2012 February 21, 2012

An upcoming workshop will be held in Cincinnati in March that will include the BIRN Genomics Graphical Pipeline capability. For more information about the workshop, […]


Nature Genetics paper describes ISA format related to BIRN Knowledge Engineering efforts February 2, 2012

The BioSharing initiative is a large-scale international collaboration concerned with developing methods for sharing data. In February 2012, Nature Genetics published a paper describing the […]


BIRN Genomics Pipeline paper leads on BMC Bioinformatics site November 30, 2011

A paper published in the journal BMC Bioinformatics by a team of BIRN researchers led by Ivo D. Dinov of UCLA and Fabio Macciardi at UC Irvine has been downloaded 1,825 times since July, making it one of the most accessed papers on the journal’s site: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/12/304


New Paper: Knowledge synthesis with maps of neural connectivity November 1, 2011

The Knowledge Engineering Working Group has published a new paper in Frontiers in Neuroinformatics which describes use of BIRN’s KEfED model in a Neuroanatomy use case: http://www.frontiersin.org/neuroinformatics/10.3389/fninf.2011.00024/abstract


BIRN Presentations to NIH September 21, 2011

This week members of BIRN’s Executive and Steering Committees made several presentations to many members of NIH describing what we’re doing. The slides have been […]


New BIRN Video Introductions September 12, 2011

Please check out these new videos where Dr. Carl Kesselman describes BIRN and answers key questions newcomers may have: www.birncommunity.org/about/birn-video-intro/


BIRN Posters at INCF 2011 September 3, 2011

Check out various posters that will be available during the BIRN lunch sessions at INCF 2011.


BIRN is supported by NIH grants 1U24-RR025736, U24-RR021992, U24-RR021760 and by the Collaborative Tools Support Network Award 1U24-RR026057-01.