How BIRN is organized

• BIRN Executive Committee
• Key Personnel
• Participating Institutions

What BIRN offers

• BIRN CC Tools Primer
• fBIRN Tools Primer
• mBIRN Tools Primer
• Mouse BIRN Tools Primer
• BIRN Data Repository

Who uses BIRN

• BIRN Coordinating Center
• Function BIRN
• Morphometry BIRN
• Mouse BIRN

Affiliated Sites

• NCRR
• NIH-CIT
• NDAR
• NA-MIC
• UK e-Science

BIRN Glossary

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Using Data from the BDR

In line with one of the unique aspects of BIRN, the goal of the BDR is to make data originally acquired with investigator-specific interest available to the community for further study. The BDR is a sustainable archive of data housing a wide variety of data types, including biomedical images with descriptive metadata, clinical assessments, microarray data, genetic information, and other biomedical data. All data are freely available to the public with the provision of an active e-mail address and acceptance of the standard BDR Data Use Agreement.

Data are available through BDR resources including a variety of searchable databases along with archived downloads. To enable the intelligent exploration across the multiple sources and domains of the BDR, data sources share a common resource for definitions of terms and relationships among them (ontology).  The NIH Program Announcement (PAR-07-425) is available to actively support ontology development in parallel with data and tool sharing (PAR-07-426).  Please visit http://nbirn.net/nih/index.shtm for more information on the funding sources available through the NIH.

Please View the Available Data and explore the collection of Biomedical Tools available to facilitate your research endeavors.

For information on sharing data through the BDR, please visit Share Your Data.