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Google Tech Talk about accelerating breathroughs in bioinformatics May 8, 2013

Watch Gully Burns (chair of BIRN’s Knowledge Engineering Working Group) talk about using a powerful, new knowledge engineering framework to find the right bioinformatics questions and their appropriate answers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU5HRck4bn4


Computational Genomics Training Workshop – May 20th at UCLA April 22, 2013

Join members of the BIRN Genomics Working Group at the Computational Genomics Training workshop at UCLA on May 20th. This all-day free workshop will cover theoretical and methodological aspects of biomedical computing and focus on genomics training, practical usage, functionality, applications and tool interoperability.


GlobusWorld coming up – April 16-18 in Chicago March 27, 2013

Globus Online is the powerful technology underlying important BIRN capabilities such as data movement and security. Get an up close look at this year’s GlobusWORLD conference.


BIRN PDF extraction paper ‘highly accessed’ on Source Code for Biology & Medicine site February 14, 2013

Layout-aware text extraction from full-text PDF of scientific articles, a paper published in Source Code for Biology & Medicine by senior author and BIRN member, [...]


CVRG Monthly Seminar – September 2012 September 7, 2012

This month’s CVRG seminar is titled “Microvolt T-Wave Alternans: Guideline Statement for Clinical Practice.” The audience for this webinar will be the cardiovascular research, clinical research and biomedical informatics communities.


CVRG Monthly Webinar – August 2012 with BIRN Community August 3, 2012

You are invited to attend a CVRG web seminar on August 9, 2012 at 1:00pm Eastern. The topic is “Building a NexGen Gene Expression Database for the Human Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium”. Speakers are Bruce Aronow, PhD and Phillip Dexheimer.


New BIRN Capability: nihmaps.org April 20, 2012

BIRN announces a new capability that allows you to view a “topic map” of NIH grants that can be queried in several ways.


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. [...]


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