The National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics         

The National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics (NCIBI) is one of seven National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBC) in the NIH Roadmap. NCIBI is based at the University of Michigan and is part of the UM Center for Computational Medicine and Biology (CCMB). Brian Athey is the Principal Investigator for the NCIBI.

The mission of the National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics (NCIBI), founded in October 2005, is to create targeted knowledge environments for molecular biomedical research that help guide experiments and enable new insights from the analysis of complex diseases.
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Fourth Annual NCIBI Research Meeting

The NCIBI hosted it's 4th Annual Research Meeting in Ann Arbor, MI on April 28-29, 2009.  

For meeting details, recordings, posters and presentation PDFs click here.

NCIBI Researchers In The News

Triglycerides implicated in diabetes nerve loss - UMHS, May 14th, 2009

"To stall progress of neuropathy, doctors should monitor levels of an easily measured blood fat as closely as they do blood sugar, study suggests."

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Usability Research Suggests How Open-Source Sys-Bio Tools Can Support Deeper Data Analysis - BioInform, March 27th, 2009

"Work by University of Michigan researchers presented at the AMIA Summit on Translational Informatics reveals approaches to designing systems-biology tools to enable researchers to better explore their data."
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Stanford University and EMBL Platforms Aim to Give Users a Low-Pain Handle on Ontologies - BioInform, March 20th, 2009

"The researchers ran tests with five different data sources and four different dictionaries and chose Mgrep, developed at the National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics at the University of Michigan, because of its greater speed and "higher precision" compared to MetaMap." - Read Article

Upcoming Presentations

Recent Presentations

AMIA Summit Presentations

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
Summit on Translational Bioinformatics
March 15-17, 2009
summit2009.amia.org

• Michigan Molecular Interactions r2: From Interacting Proteins to Pathways?
  V. G. Tarcea, T. Weymouth, A. Ade, A. Bookvich, J. Gao, V. Mahavisno, Z. Wright, A. Chapman, M. Jayapandian, A. Özgür, Y. Tian, J. Cavalcoli, B. Mirel, J. Patel, D. Radev, B. Athey, D. States and H. V. Jagadish, University of Michigan
• Genomic-Scale Screening for Gene Fusions in Human Solid Tumors by Integrative Biomedical Informatics X. Wang
• Identification of Novel Alternative Splice Isoforms using Proteomic Informatics with a Modified ECGene Database R. Menon; D. States; G. Omenn - Download PDF
• Integrating Tools and Data using the NCIBI Suite of Tools J. Cavalcoli; Y. Ikeda; B. Mirel; H. Jagadish; G. Omenn; B. Athey
• Classification and Subspace Selection of Multiple Biomedical Time-Series via Ensemble Learning P. Harrington; A. Rao; A. Hero
• Integrating Automated Workflows, Human Intelligence and Collaboration B. Mirel, F. Eichinger, V. Nair, and M. Kretzler
• Network Analysis of Genes Regulated in Renal Diseases: Implications for a Molecular-Based Classification S. Bhavnani; F. Eichinger; S. Martini; P. Saxman; M. Kretzler
• Bioinformatics Framework for the Analysis and Interpretation of Metabolomic Data
  Alla Karnovsky, Jing Gao, Glenn Tarcea, Christopher Beecher, Charles Burant, Barbara Mirel, H.V. Jagadish, Gilbert S. Omenn - Download Poster
• Design of Integrated Translational Bioinformatics Systems
  Barbara Mirel, Benjamin Keller, Mor Peleg, Xiangqin Cui, Russ Altman - Download Poster

Recent Publications

Mirel B. Supporting cognition in systems biology analysis: findings on users' processes and design implications. Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2009, 4:2.

Jing Gao, Alex S. Ade, V. Glenn Tarcea, Terry E. Weymouth, Barbara R. Mirel, H.V. Jagadish, and David J. States. Integrating and annotating the interactome using the MiMI plugin for cytoscape. Bioinformatics 2009 25: 137-138.