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Director
Affiliation: UTA - Biosciences and Bioengineering Center
Office: Life Science #206
Phone #: 817-272-1439
Fax: 817272-3511
Email: medley@uta.edu
Home Page: biogrid.uta.edu
Lab: LS 206A
BioGrid Texas (BiGTX) a Virtual Research Park (VRP) for Health Care and Life Sciences
BioGrid Texas (BiGTX) is a Virtual Research Park (VRP) for health care and life sciences research and development communities.
This initiative provides a vehicle to unite life sciences, health care and information technology resources in a way that has never before
been achieved. Through a convergence of new technology and cutting-edge research programs, we plan to make the north Texas
region and the state an internationally recognized leader in collaborative life sciences research and entrepreneurship. IBM Healthcare
and Life Sciences, a powerhouse of technology and innovation in the biological sciences, and The University of Texas at Arlington, a
leader in the field of high-performance grid computing, have partnered to implement the enabling technology behind the VRP.
The BioGrid Texas system is a comprehensive system that includes platform-independent tools for user collaboration and research
which promote human-to-human interaction and effective research and development among geographically dispersed teams. It
includes both real-time and asynchronous interaction modes as well as human-to-data interaction, human-to-instrument interactions
and even computer-to-computer interactions through intelligent agent systems. Essentially, this system creates a Virtual Collaborative
Problem Solving Environment (VCPSE) allowing life science and health care entities to come together as a virtual research and
development organization within a Virtual Research Park. This project utilizes the existing infrastructure of the Distributed and Parallel
Computing Cluster facilities at the University of Texas at Arlington which are currently being used for advanced experimental and
theoretical research in high-energy, astronomical, molecular, mathematical and atomic physics and computer science research.
Research groups within BioGrid include a network of dermatologists and computer scientists examining change detection in
cancerous lesions, genomics researchers examining retro and pseudogenes in Drosphila, mice, chickens and humans, a symptom
management team aimed at minimizing pain, fatigue, cognitive impairment, nausea, etc., and UTA’s SMART Hospital and Health
System.
Tangible benefits arising from the implementation of the BiGTX-VRP system include:
• An organized life science research talent pool which is second to none having the capability to foster innovation through
synergies of expertise on local and global scales,
• Management of joint research programs and projects across multiple organizations thus eliminating duplication of effort while
allowing individual members to focus on their key competencies,
• Community and state-wide efficiencies of operation achieved through coordinated high-level research strategies within related
organizations,
• Accelerated discovery through pooling and sharing of relevant data and information interpreted by state-of-the-art analytical
tools,
• Faster grant throughput from science teams potentially resulting in greater funding in life sciences R&D,
• Instant access to best-practice research applications, specialized algorithms, R&D tools, processes and methods, compliance
and regulatory policies, and legal advice,
• Efficient and cost-effective sharing of medical records and images (mammograms, x-rays, MRIs) for hospitals through the use
of IBM’s “Healthcare Collaborative Network” (HCN),
• Near real-time medical reporting provided by a common electronic health care information system that supports government,
non-profit, and private industry needs,
• Rapid detection and response to adverse health care and bioterrorism events,
• Instant online access to bioscience and health care products, services, and expert systems,
• Streamlined intellectual property management and technology transfer plus the ability to pool regional knowledge of existing
and emerging technologies resulting in timely conversion of research to start-up companies and greater economic
development for the region,
• The ability to present and publish research results in a standardized and reusable manner, so as to provide value to the
research community as a whole,
• Access to unprecedented high-performance distributed computing resources through the grid,
• Demonstration of progressive leadership of D/FW and the state of Texas in biotechnology and innovative health care by
showcasing BiGTX-VRP as an asset to bioscience industries.
For more information visit biogrid.uta.edu or contact Paul Medley (medley@uta.edu).
Funded by the Texas Workforce Commision.
Extraction Method: Keyword Count with Lexical Variants Added-
Eliminated words list: MedlinePlus List
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Similarity Method: Weighted Keyword Count
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Weighting Method: Term Frequency * Inverse Document Frequency
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Database: Medline Updates from current year
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Publication Type: All
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Score Calculation Method: Cosine Similarity Method
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Sort by: Score
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Results computed on: 6/9/2006