California State University San Bernardino
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Masters Project Presentation

Date 11/9/2009 Time 9:00am-10:00am
Place JBH 389/391

Title Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) Data Repository

Candidate Laurence J. B. Bohannan

Advisor Dr. Arturo I Concepcion

Committee Members Dr. Keith E. Schubert  & Dr. Ernesto Gomez

Abstract
A great demand has been placed on the resources that researchers have at 
their disposal by the copious amounts of data that are being created in the
domain of biological sciences through the aid of computers, such as through
the Magnetic Resonance Imaging. An economical solution to this growing 
problem is to accumulate this data onto large-scale computer clusters, 
which are interconnected to other clusters via high-speed Internet 
backbones to create a scientific computational grid. The introduction of 
NIH guidelines which outlines specific timelines to the sharing of derived
information, tools or data from NIH funded studies have created a need for
a common resource to increase the availability of and access to data 
contributed from the scientific community at large. The Biological 
Informatics Research Network (BIRN) Data Repository function is to 
streamline the submission process for researchers to categorize, approve, 
curate, and publish these data sets. By supporting the sharing and exchange
of these data types in fulfillment of the NIH guidelines the BIRN Data 
Repository will have the ability to grow as the need develops for these 
researchers to easily share information. The BIRN Data Repository is 
intended to incorporate portions of the existing BIRN infrastructure with 
grid components such as the Storage Resource Broker, Gridsphere Web portal,
and existing collaborative portlet environments to reduced the overall 
development timeline for creating a full featured collaborative scientific
data repository.