NCIBI's mission is to create targeted knowledge environments for molecular biomedical research to help guide experiments and enable new insights from the analysis of complex diseases.
Driving Biological Projects (DBPs) provide a starting point from which tool development is informed, launched, and tested.
Current DBPs include gene fusion in cancers, major organ-specific complications of diabetes, nutrition and obesity, and co-morbid disease associations of bipolar disorder.
Once tools are developed and validated, the Center disseminates data and software throughout the University and the broader biomedical research community.
Various mechanisms such as training videos,[3] tutorials,[4] and demonstrations and presentations at prominent scientific conferences are used to share NCIBI data and software nationally and internationally.