BIRN Coordinating Center
The BIRN Coordinating Center (BIRN-CC) develops, implements and supports the information technology infrastructure necessary to achieve distributed collaborations and data sharing among the test bed participants. The development of flexible approaches to data integration, in conjunction with data modeling and database development, is principal to the BIRN efforts. Other duties span research, dissemination and deployment of the overall system architecture, adaptation of existing hardware infrastructure and software, expansion and support of test bed-specific tools, development of novel software techniques, facilitation of test bed group communication, and daily operation and monitoring of the distributed BIRN hardware.
The BIRN-CC consists of a unique and well-established partnership between computer scientists, neuroscientists and engineers. This partnership addresses a large array of technical, policy, and architectural issues to enable a new suite of information technology-supported analysis tools.
See the BIRN Coordinating Center Primer for more information on the infrastructure and suite of tools being provided to the research community to enable collaborative and multi-site studies.
The BIRN Coordinating Center is located at the University of California, San Diego. Location, driving directions and information about local accomodations is available.
Key Personnel
Principal Investigator: Mark Ellisman
Project Manager: Mark James
Scientific Coordinator: Jeffrey Grethe