links for 2009-05-08

• LexGrid - HL7 CTS
  'The HL7 Common Terminology Services (HL7 CTS) is an Application Programming Interface (API) specification that is intended to describe the basic functionality that will be needed by HL7 Version 3 software implementations to query and access terminological content. It is specified as an API rather than a set of data structures to enable a wide variety of terminological content to be integrated within the HL7 Version 3 messaging framework without the need for significant migration or rewrite.'
  (tags: physio-mimi ontology i2b2 HL7)
• HL7 Common Terminology Services 2 - ApelCore
  wiki for HL7 CTS 2.
  (tags: physio-mimi ontology information+science)
• The National Center for Biomedical Ontology - BioPortal 1.0
  'BioPortal is an open repository of biomedical ontologies. Researchers in biomedical informatics can submit their ontologies to BioPortal, and others can access these ontologies in their web browsers through the BioPortal user interface, or through web services.'
  (tags: physio-mimi ontology information+science biomedical+research biomedical+informatics bioinformatics)
• National Centers for Biomedical Computing
  'The National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBC) are cooperative agreement awards that are funded under the NIH Roadmap for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. The Centers are intended to be the core of the networked national effort to build the computational infrastructure for biomedical computing in the nation, the National Program of Excellence in Biomedical Computing (NPEBC). There are seven funded Centers that cover systems biology, image processing, biophysical modeling, biomedical ontologies, information integration, and tools for gene-phenotype and disease analysis. The centers will create innovative software programs and other tools that enable the biomedical community to integrate, analyze, model, simulate, and share data on human health and disease.'
  (tags: physio-mimi ontology information+science bioinformatics biomedical+informatics biomedical+research)