The Biomedical Informatics Research Network or BIRN is a National Institutes of Health initiative providing a framework of people and information technology infrastructure, notably a grid of supercomputers, for distributed collaborations in biomedical science.
As of 2005, the BIRN involves a consortium of 19 universities and 26 research groups across the United States. BIRN has three test bed projects centered around brain imaging of human neurological disorders and associated animal models.
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