Transcript National Biological Information Infrastructure program overview

National Biological
Information Infrastructure (NBII):
General Program Overview
June 2005
NBII: What is it?
• A broad, collaborative program to
provide access to data and information
on our Nation’s biological resources.
Contributors and Users from
Diverse Sources
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Federal, State and local Government Agencies
Academic Institutions
Private sector organizations (non-profit, commercial)
Other interested groups
GOVERNMENTS
PRIVATE
UNIVERSITIES
MUSEUMS
NBII Node Types
* Regional
* Thematic
* Infrastructure
Bioinformatics Challenges:
Data Collection process
Micro-level vs. Macro-level research
“Virtual” collaboration
UI Challenges for diverse audiences
“generalized” vs. “one-off” tools
Technology transfer/expertise
Information Integration/scale/search
Data quality
Requires multiple disciplines
Global scope
Sustainability of tools, applications, databases