Food and Nutrient Systems for Research

用于研究的食物和营养系统

• 批准号: 6707762
• 负责人: JOHN H. HIMES
• 金额: $ 26.93万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-12-15 至 2008-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6707762
• 关键词: Internet; bioinformatics; biomedical resource; clinical research; computer data analysis; computer program /software; computer system design /evaluation; cooperative study; data collection; data management; diet; dietary constituent; dietary supplements; food; human population study; human subject; information systems; method development; nutrition; nutrition related tag

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests continued support for the Nutrition Coordinating Center (NCC) at the University of Minnesota, as a national research resource. NCC develops, provides, and supports state-of-the-art methods, databases and software related to the collection and analysis of dietary data in studies of diet and health. NCC has the most comprehensive and detailed food and nutrient database appropriate for research purposes. Methodologies, quality control, and training are of the highest quality required for research. The stature of NCC personnel, activities, software, databases, and support services is documented with listings of study collaborations, client investigators, letters of support from investigators nationally, and references from the scientific literature that have used NCC methods and databases in their research. Four specific aims are proposed. Activities for Aim 1 will maintain and update the NCC database of 18,000 foods and 126 nutrients associated with the Nutrition Data System for Research (NDS-R) software that collects, codes, and analyzes dietary data to generate nutrients consumed. Five additional nutrient fields will be added to the database, and updated versions of the database will accompany the versions of the software released annually so that rapid changes in the nation's food supply can be represented. Food grouping schemes will be developed and incorporated into NDS-R so that the number of servings in each can be calculated automatically. Activities for Aim 2 will enhance the NDS-R software and in-house computer programs to maintain the database, to further improve flexibility, efficiency of use, and data management features. Activities for Aim 3 will enhance the NCC website to improve and expand it's functionality to better serve nutrition researchers, both clients and other nutrition researchers. Activities for Aim 4 will develop a computer-based tool for assessment of dietary supplement use to be incorporated into the NDS-R software. This tool will utilize the content of supplement databases being developed at other government agencies. The total proposed work will allow NCC to continue to support biomedical research nationally with its products and services, it will provide continuity and comparability for ongoing and future studies, and it will help control costs and ensure quality to NIH and other investigators for providing software, databases, and diet-related research services.

描述（由申请人提供）： 此申请请求继续支持明尼苏达大学营养协调中心 (NCC) 作为国家研究资源。 NCC 开发、提供和支持与饮食和健康研究中饮食数据的收集和分析相关的最先进的方法、数据库和软件。 NCC 拥有最全面、最详细的食品和营养数据库，适合研究目的。方法、质量控制和培训符合研究所需的最高质量。 NCC 人员、活动、软件、数据库和支持服务的地位记录在研究合作列表、客户调查员、全国调查员的支持信以及在研究中使用 NCC 方法和数据库的科学文献参考文献中。提出了四个具体目标。目标 1 的活动将维护和更新包含 18,000 种食品和 126 种营养素的 NCC 数据库，该数据库与研究营养数据系统 (NDS-R) 软件相关，该软件收集、编码和分析饮食数据以生成消耗的营养素。数据库中将添加五个额外的营养字段，数据库的更新版本将伴随每年发布的软件版本一起发布，以便能够反映国家食品供应的快速变化。将开发食物分组方案并将其纳入 NDS-R，以便自动计算每份食物的份数。目标 2 的活动将增强 NDS-R 软件和内部计算机程序来维护数据库，进一步提高灵活性、使用效率和数据管理功能。 Aim 3 的活动将增强 NCC 网站，改进和扩展其功能，更好地为营养研究人员（包括客户和其他营养研究人员）提供服务。 Aim 4 的活动将开发一种基于计算机的工具，用于评估膳食补充剂的使用情况，并将其纳入 NDS-R 软件中。该工具将利用其他政府机构正在开发的补充数据库的内容。拟议的总体工作将使 NCC 能够继续通过其产品和服务支持全国生物医学研究，为正在进行的和未来的研究提供连续性和可比性，并将有助于控制成本并确保向 NIH 和其他研究人员提供软件、数据库和饮食相关研究服务的质量。