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 magnetic resonance (MR) and other imaging data sources, clinical assessments, behavioral, and microarray data.  All data are freely available to the public with the provision of an active e-mail address and acceptance of the minimal standard BDR Data Use Agreement.

Data are discoverable via a concept-based query interface and further queried and explored via database-specific query interfaces.  To enable intelligent exploration across the multiple sources and domains of the BDR, data sources share a common resource for definitions of terms (BIRNLex) and relationships among them (ontology).  The NIH Program Announcement (PAR-07-425) is available to actively support ontology development in parallel with data sharing (PAR-07-426).  Please visit http://nbirn.net/nih/index.shtm for more information on the funding sources available through the NIH.

Please visit View Data Currently Available to review available BDR data sources, and Preview Data Coming Soon to browse upcoming data releases.

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