Member Tools
Users range from small research groups to large, national consortia such as the Nonhuman Primate Research Consortium (NHPRC) and the Cardiovascular Research Grid (CVRG), both funded by NIH.
By using BIRN's capabilities both to access data and perform research, groups can conduct large-scale data analysis while maximizing their existing technical infrastructure and expertise. Users also can participate in BIRN Working Groups, which develop and support operations, data-sharing requirements, security and other key functions.
BIRN offers a website, wiki and mailing lists to help users stay current on news, best practices and topics related directly to their data-sharing considerations. Its experts can help biomedical teams select software, data and metadata community standards; set up security mechanisms and sharing protocols; and create multi-institutional policies from a potentially overwhelming range of options.
Read more about this topic: Biomedical Informatics Research Network
Famous quotes containing the words member and/or tools:
“He was a tough, burly thick-headed gentleman, with a loud voice, a pompous manner, a tolerable command of sentences with no meaning in them, and, in short, every requisite for a very good member indeed.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)