BIRN – Biomedical Informatics Research Network

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

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

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 [...]

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

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

BIRN will be hosting a set of lunchtime informational sessions at the INCF’s annual meeting in Boston on Tuesday, Sept 6th. More info at http://www.neuroinformatics2011.org

Gully Burns, chair of the BIRN Knowledge Engineering Working Group, announces that they have published a software-based journal article describing their approach for Knowledge Engineering: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/12/351

Speaker: Andrew Post, MD, PhD
Clinical Informatics Architect, Emory Center for Comprehensive Informatics;
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Title: Creating [...]

Speaker: Rob MacLeod, Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Internal Medicine,
University of Utah, Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute
Title: Atrial Fibrillation: An [...]

BIRN Researchers have published a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association that details the current BIRN capabilities in the areas of [...]

In this seminar we will provide an overview of the Emory/RHSIT electronic data capture service and our utilization of REDCap as key tool in providing low cost services to investigators.

In this talk, the speaker uses caGrid as a case of service computing in biomedical science and includes a combination of research and engineering effort made by the team. The speaker, Ravi Madduri, is a key player in BIRN and chair of the Workflow Working Group.

The first version of the Graphical Pipeline Workflow Capability for Computational Genomics and Visual Informatics is available online and feedback is appreciated. This capability is [...]

Congratulations to BIRN members Naveen Ashish, Jose Luis Ambite, Maria Muslea, and Jessica A. Turner on the publishing of their article, Neuroscience data integration through [...]

BIRN is now seeking comments from researchers across various domains on proposed upgrades to the BIRN Security platform. To read an overview of the plans, [...]

In 2010, 3D Slicer version 3.6 was released incorporating a wide range of modules for both general purpose analysis and custom-built tools to accommodate particular research computing needs.

BIRN is happy to announce the release of the upgraded Group Management capability as well as our new documentation site for users of mature BIRN capabilities. For more information, go to https://wiki.birncommunity.org:8443/display/BIRNDOC/

Various BIRN members attended the ISMRM-ESMRMB Joint Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden on May 1-7, 2010. Included were presentations by Karl Helmer and Bryon Mueller.

The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) hosted a day-long event on May 21, entitled “Enabling Collaborative Research with Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) Infrastructure” in Bethesda, MA. You can find presentations and the full agenda here.

A three day workshop is being conducted June 28-30 in St. Louis. The
workshop will cover topics ranging from standing up your first XNAT to
joining the growing community of open source XNAT developers.

The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) will host a day-long event on May 21, entitled Enabling Collaborative Research with
Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) Infrastructure. For more information: http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/news_&_events/upcoming_events/.

Biomedical and computer scientists were able to see 20 presentations from a variety of biomedical domains, as well as reports on the latest BIRN capabilities (while enjoying some fabulous Southern California weather).

The BIRN All Hands Meeting will be held March 15 and 16 in Huntington Beach, CA. This meeting is open to all those scientists interested in learning more about BIRN capabilities. Please click here for more information.

The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a unit of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced the establishment of the Collaborative Tools Support [...]

The Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) today launched a completely new website (www.birncommunity.org) that highlights its broadened focus, including services for the entire biomedical community [...]