National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics

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{{Primary sources|article|date=November 2010}}The National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics (NCIBI) is one of seven National Centers for Biomedical Computing funded by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research.[http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/bioinformatics/ The NIH Common Fund, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology][http://www.ncbcs.org/summary.html National Centers for Biomedical Computing, Summary] The center is based at the University of Michigan and is part of the Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics. NCIBI's mission is to create targeted knowledge environments for molecular biomedical research to help guide experiments and enable new insights from the analysis of complex diseases. It was established in October 2005.

The Center develops computational methods to effectively access and integrate biological data. Driving Biological Projects (DBPs) provide a starting point from which tool development is informed, launched, and tested. Current DBPs include gene fusion in cancers, major organ-specific complications of diabetes, nutrition and obesity, and co-morbid disease associations of bipolar disorder. In addition to testing tools for function, a separate team is dedicated to testing usability and user interaction.

Once tools are developed and validated, the Center disseminates data and software throughout the University and the broader biomedical research community. Various mechanisms such as training videos,[https://www.youtube.com/user/NCIBI9 NCIBI YouTube Channel] tutorials,[http://portal.ncibi.org/gateway/virtual-workshop.html NCIBI Virtual Workshops] and demonstrations and presentations at prominent scientific conferences are used to share NCIBI data and software nationally and internationally.[http://portal.ncibi.org/gateway/presentations.html NCIBI Presentations]