BMIR is committed to the development of research tools as part of its goal to provide reusable, computational building blocks to facilitate the development of a vast array of systems. Some of these resources are described below.
The National Center for Biomedical Ontology is a consortium of leading biologists, clinicians, informaticians, and ontologists who develop innovative technology and methods that allow scientists to create, disseminate, and manage biomedical information and knowledge in machine-processable form.
Protégé is a free, open-source platform that provides its community of more than 80,000 users with a suite of tools to construct domain models and knowledge-based applications with ontologies.
PharmGKB curates information that establishes knowledge about the relationships among drugs, diseases and genes, including their variations and gene products. Our mission is to catalyze pharmacogenomics research.
About Simbios
Simbios, the National NIH Center for Physics-based Simulation of Biological Structures is devoted to helping biomedical researchers understand biological form and function. It provides infrastructure, software, and training to assist users as they create novel drugs, synthetic tissues, medical devices, and surgical interventions.
Simbios scientists investigate structure-function studies on a wide scale of biology – from molecules to organisms, and are currently focusing on challenging biological problems in RNA folding, myosin dynamics, neuromuscular biomechanics and cardiovascular dynamics.
