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.
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.
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