SD BRIN: BIOINFORMATICS CORE LIBRARY

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This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. One component of the bioinformatics core is enhancing the library information services available to network members. The USD School of Medicine Lommen Library plays a primary role by providing this literature and database access. Document delivery capability has been improved with BRIN funding by the installation of three workstations housing two Dell computers, one HP color laser printer, one HP b&w printer, and one Fujitsu color scanner. This allows more rapid retrieval and delivery of articles using Docline and Internet Ariel software. Support for online databases of scientific journals has been essential to both faculty and students at USD and at the partner undergraduate instituions. The bioinformatics collaboration with computer science is growing and their research emphasis is basically designed around data management issues relevant to the biomedical sciences. Computer scientists are designing and supporting the hardware and software needed to analyze proteomics and genomics results. A new PhD program in Computational Sciences and Statistics with a developing emphasis on bioinformatics has been approved by the SD Board of Regents to begin in fall 2005 with two new faculty positions for computer science (one also sponsored by BRIN in bioinformatics).