Food and Nutrient Systems for Research

描述(由申请人提供)： 这项申请请求继续支持明尼苏达大学的营养协调中心(NCC)，作为国家研究资源。NCC开发、提供和支持最先进的方法、数据库和软件，这些方法、数据库和软件与饮食与健康研究中的饮食数据收集和分析有关。NCC拥有最全面、最详细的适合研究目的的食物和营养数据库。方法论、质量控制和培训是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由研究合作、客户调查人员、全国调查人员的支持信以及在他们的研究中使用NCC方法和数据库的科学文献中的参考文献列表记录下来。提出了四个具体目标。AIM 1的活动将维护和更新NCC数据库，其中包括18,000种食物和126种营养素，这些数据库与研究营养数据系统(NDS-R)软件有关，该软件收集、编码和分析饮食数据，以生成营养素消耗量。该数据库将增加五个营养领域，数据库的更新版本将与每年发布的软件版本一起发布，这样就可以代表国家食品供应的快速变化。将制定食物分组方案，并将其纳入NDS-R，以便能够自动计算每个方案中的服务数量。AIM 2的活动将加强NDS-R软件和内部计算机程序，以维护数据库，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，以改进和扩展其功能，以更好地服务于营养研究人员，包括客户和其他营养研究人员。AIM 4的活动将开发一个用于评估膳食补充剂使用情况的计算机工具，该工具将纳入NDS-R软件。这一工具将利用其他政府机构正在开发的补充数据库的内容。拟议的全部工作将使NCC能够继续通过其产品和服务在全国范围内支持生物医学研究，它将为正在进行的研究和未来的研究提供连续性和可比性，它将有助于控制成本并确保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。

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.