National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics (NCIBI)

Description:
The National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics (NCIBI) is one of eight National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBC) within the NIH Roadmap. The NCBC program is focused on building a universal computing infrastructure designed to speed progress in biomedical research. NCIBI was founded in September 2005 and is based at the University of Michigan as part of the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics (DCMB).

Based at the University of Michigan, NCIBI was founded in September 2005 as one of seven National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBC) in the NIH Roadmap. By integrating vast amounts of diverse, multi-scale data, the Center develops and disseminates tools for molecular biomedical research from a systems biology perspective. These bioinformatics resources help guide experiments and enable new insights derived from the analysis of complex diseases.

NCIBI is composed of biomedical researchers, computational biologists, computer scientists, developers, and human-computer interaction specialists organized into seven major core functions. Working collaboratively, these interdisciplinary teams develop powerful, relevant tools that enable biomedical researchers to build computational and knowledge models of biological systems, validated through disease-specific studies.