Food and Nutrient Systems for Research

描述（由申请人提供）： 本申请要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拥有适合研究目的的最全面和详细的食物和营养数据库。方法、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记录在研究合作列表、客户研究者、来自全国研究者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与研究营养数据系统（NDS-R）软件相关的18，000种食品和126种营养素的NCC数据库，该软件收集，编码和分析饮食数据以生成营养素消耗。数据库中将增加五个营养素字段，数据库的更新版本将伴随每年发布的软件版本，以便能够反映国家粮食供应的快速变化。将制定食物分组方案并将其纳入NDS-R，以便可以自动计算每份食物的数量。目标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。 目标3的活动将加强NCC网站，以改善和扩大其功能，更好地为营养研究人员、客户和其他营养研究人员服务。目标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，并将其纳入国家膳食补充剂调查-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支持全国的生物医学研究，它将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，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.