How BIRN is organized

• BIRN Executive Committee
• Key Personnel
• Participating Institutions

What BIRN offers

• BIRN CC Tools Primer
• fBIRN Tools Primer
• mBIRN Tools Primer
• Mouse BIRN Tools Primer
• BIRN Data Repository

Who uses BIRN

• BIRN Coordinating Center
• Function BIRN
• Morphometry BIRN
• Mouse BIRN

Affiliated Sites

• NCRR
• NIH-CIT
• NDAR
• NA-MIC
• UK e-Science

BIRN Glossary

Copyright

BIRN Data Repository

To further promote a collaborative research environment, the BIRN has undertaken the development of the public BIRN Data Repository (BDR). This sustainable archive supports the sharing and exchange of biomedical research data, accepts data generated by the biomedical research community and makes these data freely available, towards fulfillment of NIH guidelines. Not only does the BDR enable the sharing of existing data, the BIRN also envisions the BDR as a mechanism to facilitate active collaborations that will lead to sharing.

By providing the scientific community with relevant, easily accessible data, your participation will encourage scientific inquiry, enable new research exploration, and facilitate education.  Consider that shared data may be combined to create larger samples for increased power or employed to compare performance of analysis methods.

The NIH is actively encouraging data sharing through many avenues, including recently released Program Announcements (PAR-07-426; PAR-07-425) aimed in part to support sharing your data through the BDR.

A rich curatorial environment, built on the BIRN portal foundation, underlies the data submission process and the subsequent sharing of the data. The BDR provides the means by which to capture, curate, store, query, view, and download imaging and related human and animal data.

• Biomedical imaging data from humans and animal models are available for download with descriptive metadata, and in some cases, associated clinical, microarray, or other biomedical data.
• View available data
• Data available include a variety of searchable databases along with archived downloads.
• Data use
• The BDR will work with investigators to enable data sharing, supporting NIH guidelines. 
• Share your data

For more information related to available data resources, use of data, and the process for data sharing and submission, please contact BDR Director Christine Fennema-Notestine, Ph.D., or Submissions Coordinator Andrea Arnaud at BDR_info@nbirn.net.