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The Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) is a geographically distributed virtual community of shared resources offering tremendous potential to advance the diagnosis and treatment of disease. BIRN enhances the scientific discoveries of biomedical scientists and clinical researchers across research disciplines. BIRN ... * hosts a collaborative environment rich with tools that permit uniform access to hundreds of researchers, enabling cooperation on multi-institutional investigations. * synchronizes developments in wide area networking, multiple data sources, and distributed computing. * designs, tests, and releases new integrative software tools that enable researchers to pose questions and share knowledge across multiple animal models (mouse, human, and non-human primate). * receives funding from the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), established in 2001.

Our vision is to empower students, scholars, and professionals in intelligent knowledge networks to share knowledge and make it globally visible, accessible, and ever expanding. Background of Lalisio The amount of knowledge increases every day, and with it the time and effort students, scholars, and professionals need to spend to find helpful materials or knowledgeable people with whom they can share, discuss, study, or research common points of interest. Due to the ever increasing amount of information, a great deal of valuable knowledge gets covered today and is ultimately lost. Connecting Knowledge Worldwide For this reason, Lalisio offers easy ways to find, share, and connect knowledge worldwide making it more accessible and supporting research and education worldwide. Lalisio connects knowledge-seeking people from around the world with a unique search engine for all relevant data sources, i.e. books, Open Access articles, and publications in renowned journals. Lalisio puts a particular focus on a user-friendly design of its services and allows for a high degree of adaptability of its services to individual user needs. Lalisio is designing its services so that users are able to access them with personal computers as well as mobile devices – no matter whether they are at home, in a library, in a classroom, or in the office – they can use Lalisio to find answers to all kinds of questions. Lalisio integrates information, interaction, and information management, and is about community, content plus the valuable combination of both. Discovering our Name Lalisio is the Latin word for "little donkey". The term from the ancient language of scholars stresses our connection with academia. The image of the little donkey appealed to us since our network, similar to an intelligent and reliable donkey, can help you with transporting and delivering knowledge in a convenient and efficient manner. It allows you to reach the maximum effect with a minimal effort. With our sure-footed carrier of knowledge, you can optimize your academic research and studies. Let Lalisio do the work for you! All you need to do is use our services and then Lalisio will let rain gold for you just like Grimm`s gold-donkey.

The RNA project deals in a very practical way with methods, tools and techniques for building dynamic knowledge systems. In these systems a key role is played by reference networks, sets of reference structures (like thesauri, taxonomies, etc.) and related content metadata. The project is financed by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. It is a combined effort of a group of innovative small companies, vanguard institutions in the cultural heritage field and outstanding, internationally acclaimed academics.

STERNA (Semantic Web-based Thematic European Reference Network Application) is the contribution of twelve European natural history museums and other institutions that collect and hold content on biodiversity, wildlife and nature in general, to the objectives and realisation of a European Digital Library. The project specifically addresses the many small cultural heritage institutions and content providers that want to actively participate and contribute to the European Digital Library initiative but lack both technical skills and financial resources to do so. To help content providers to make their valuable and rich resources available to a wider audience, our vision is to create a dispersed and networked information space, supported and sustained by a member network of autonomous content organisations which serves users with a special interest in nature and wildlife worldwide.

Collexis High Definition Search enables fast, accurate and extraordinary knowledge retrieval and discovery quickly and accurately by utilizing fingerprinting technology. The Collexis Fingerprint empowers users to identify and search for documents, experts, trends, and new discoveries more quickly, precisely – and thoroughly – than conventional search engines. For users, the savings in research dollars are extraordinary. High Definition Search positions Collexis as a world leader in the vital area of knowledge management and discovery software.

This project, funded for two years starting September 2008 by the NSF Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) Program will develop a suite of tools and services to encourage formation of virtual organizations in scientific communities of various sizes, such as conference groups and departmental research groups, and allow such organizations to filter out relevant documents from various input streams, select and enhance the quality of bibliographic data associated with the organization, and attract students, teachers and researchers to contribute to activity of the organization.

This twine collects all links and resources related to the "R Project", an open source tool package for statistical computing -- available on most platforms.

The Complex Systems Registry is an Open Source federative platform that has been developed within the FET coordination action Open Network of Centres of Excellence in Complex Systems (ONCE-CS) within the framework of the Complex Systems Society. The aims of this initiative are * to become the main Information Hub for the Complex Systems Community, * to offer pre-installed Web facilities to all institutions, projects, working groups, ... of the Complex Systems Community, * to guarantee the inter-operability between all installed Web sites.

Nature Network: connecting scientists Nature Network home page for logged out users. What can you do on Nature Network? Connect Keep in touch with colleagues. Make new contacts. Discuss Talk about research and scientific issues. Explore Read the blogs. Browse the forums and profiles.

From the Greek root Ology, it refers to every branch of learning. Connect, share, and learn from colleagues through papers, networked groups, collaborative tools and more.

Maintaining contact with every single Humboldtian worldwide is one of the Humboldt Foundation's main tasks, along with promoting academic contacts between Humboldtians themselves. The network currently comprises more than 23,000 scientists and scholars from all disciplines in 130 countries.

Welcome to ResearchGATE ResearchGATE is a new free of charge Science 2.0 platform designed for the need of researchers. With this new platform we want to change the world of science by providing a global and powerful scientific web-based environment, in which scientists can interact, exchange knowledge and collaborate with researchers of different fields. Sign up and be part of the first scientific network. * present yourself and your research projects * enroll, expand, and broaden your science network globally * exchange know-how and expertise * initiate collaboration * discuss your research limitation and get positive feedback * use our innovative tools and work environments for online collaboration