This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing theresources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject andinvestigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source,and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed isfor the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator.The goal of the New Mexico INBRE Bioinformatics Core is to enhance the capabilities of biomedical researchers within New Mexico and to increase their research effectiveness. Major efforts have focused on improving the ability of researchers scattered throughout the State to communicate with each other, on increasing the availability of educational and training opportunities in the area of bioinformatics, and on providing ready access to collections of scientific software and the hardware platforms required to perform modern analyses. Large investments have been made in the networking infrastructure within NM. As a direct result of the Bioinformatics' Core involvement, NM is at the forefront of the Lambda Rail Project, a national and international effort to provide extremely high bandwidth (e.g., 10 Gps) communications in support of a new generation of interactive scientific applications. These include biomedical activities such as teleconferencing seminars, workshops, and courses, remote interactive access to expensive or specialized scientific equipment such as large microscopes, and distributed analysis of complex problems such as molecular structure determination and phylogenetic inference. The Bioinformatics Core Computational Biology Facility has contributed a collection of approximately 100 major biomedical and scientific software packages to a publicly available collection of well over 5,000 such packages. The collection is organized around the principle of simplifying the process of installing and managing complex sets of software across a diversity of computer platforms. The Core's contribution alone represents a significant enhancement of software resources that are now available to the entire community of scientists. The Core also supports hardware resources, including file servers with over 10 TB of capacity, several relational database servers, a web server, a 32-CPU compute cluster, and a 24 TB tape library for backup. Through all of these activities, the Bioinformatics Core is supporting biomedical research within NM and beyond.
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