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UCSD and the Venter Institute establish a Web-based resource for advancing metagenomic research
March 2007—The Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA) project launched its Web site to the public on January 23, 2007. By leveraging emerging technologies in distributed data storage and analysis not commonly found in gene sequence resources, the CAMERA Web site (camera.calit2.net) is on its way to create a community resource to enable researchers to access high-performance computational resources and analyze raw environmental sequence data and associated metadata-innovative cyberinfrastructure not currently available at other gene sequence resources. more...
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Grants $1.76 Million to Support Global Network Uniting Environmental Researchers
December 2004—To integrate ecological data worldwide, The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded $1.76 million to the project, "Toward a Distributed Information System for Marine Biology and Limnology." This project will support the construction and refinement of a "cyberinfrastructure,"an advanced information infrastructure of data and analysis tools, for two research groups: The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), a global network of more than 40 marine research programs, and the North Temperate Lakes Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Project, which studies long-term, regional changes in lake ecosystems.
This cyberinfrastructure will allow researchers thousands of miles apart to share data through a user-friendly interface on their desktop. The initiative promotes collaboration among researchers around the globe, allowing them to solve ecological mysteries more efficiently as a team than if they worked alone, said Dr. Peter Arzberger, principal investigator of the project and director of the life sciences initiative at UCSD. more...
Nitric Oxide and Zinc Cooperate to Demolish Overexcited Neurons
February 2004—Composite image created by NCMIR researchers demonstrates a unique form of cross-talk between nitric oxide and zinc apoptotic signal transduction pathways may contribute to neurodegeneration, according to a recent collaboration between NCMIR and the Center for Neuroscience and Aging and The Burnham Institute. more...
