BIRN uses Working Groups to organize teams of people including BIRN personnel and BIRN users to develop and implement capabilities to help solve important research needs.
Data Management Working Group
The BIRN Data Management Working Group (Data WG) is responsible for defining BIRN’s data management capabilities, such as data storage, access, and mirroring, along with metadata hosting. Read more…
Information Integration Working Group
The Information Integration Working Group (Information Integration WG) researches and develops technology to present a semantically unified view of data that is distributed across multiple sources. Such ability is critical to BIRN’s infrastructure, which by definition enables participants to communicate across incompatible computing platforms and database structures. Read more…
Security Working Group
The BIRN Security Working Group (Security WG) is charged with creating security requirements and providing solutions for the BIRN community. Read more…
Knowledge Engineering Working Group
The BIRN Knowledge Engineering Working Group (Knowledge Engineering WG) builds tools with a focus on helping scientists make sense of their data and knowledge. The team is working to provide generic, large-scale software systems and tools that readily can be adapted the needs of any biomedical research domain. Read more…
Operations Working Group
The Operations Working Group (Ops WG) oversees the processes and practices for operating the BIRN system, including services provided by BIRN itself, by BIRN user teams, and by third-party service providers. Read more…
Genomics Working Group
The BIRN Genomics Working Group aims to maximize BIRN’s capabilities for genetic research.  We currently are defining a small number of genomics and genetics use cases, drawn from the Function BIRN (FBIRN) testbed investigations, for proof-of-concept efforts. Read more…
