SBIR Phase I: Comparative and Experimental Embryology Multimedia Software

这个小企业创新研究第一阶段项目来自生物医学成像技术公司。是为了创建一个CD-ROM，向动物学和兽医科学领域的大学生教授比较和实验胚胎学。 发展的动态和综合过程很难通过教科书来学习或教授。 然而，计算机非常好地描绘了变化。 拟议的CD-ROM将包含一个完整的文本，描述无脊椎动物和脊椎动物的正常发育以及阐明发育过程的实验。 该软件包将包括视频，动画，彩色照片，插图和实验室课程中常见的生物体显微图像。 超文本连结可让学生研究不同器官系统的同步发展或不同生物体的类似发展阶段。 项目开发涉及编写文本，科学插图，显微摄影，处理生活材料，以及处理计算机图像，视频和动画。 纳入处理后的数据将需要使用Microsoft Visual Basic和HTML进行编程。 主要目标市场包括四年制教育机构，生物领域的教职员工以及生命科学专业的本科生和研究生。 公共图书馆、进步中学和其他感兴趣的个人补充了这个每年可更新的客户群。 该项目的商业前景因所提供的综合计算机化课程的形式和内容而进一步增强。 为配合各院校将课程搬上互联网的趋势，教育署会制作多媒体网上课程及唯读光碟。 根据胚胎学在世界各地教育机构中的重要性，以及英语仍然是科学领域的主导语言，预计国际和美国的销售将强劲。

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project from Biomedical Imaging Technology, Inc. is for creation of a CD-ROM, to teach comparative and experimental embryology to college students in zoological and veterinary sciences. The dynamic and integrated processes of development are difficult to learn or teach through textbooks. Computers, however, portray change very well. The proposed CD-ROM will have a complete text describing normal development of invertebrate and vertebrate animals and the experiments that elucidate the processes of development. The software package will include videos, animations, color photographs, illustrations, and microscopic images of organisms common in laboratory courses. Hypertext linkage will enable students to study concurrent development of different organ systems or similar developmental stages in different organisms. Project development involves writing text, scientific illustration, photomicrography, handling living materials, and processing of computer images, videos, and animations. The incorporation of processed data will entail programming with Microsoft Visual Basic and HTML. The primary target market includes four-year educational institutions, faculty members in biological fields, and undergraduate and graduate students with life science majors. Public libraries, progressive secondary schools, and other interested individuals supplement this annually renewable customer base. The commercial prospects of this project are further enhanced by the form and substance of the comprehensive computerized curriculum proffered. In keeping with the trend of institutions to move their curricula onto the Web, both multimedia web-based and CD-ROM versions will be produced. In accordance with the importance of subject of embryology in educational institutions throughout the world and with the fact that English remains the dominant language in science, international as well as U.S. sales are anticipated to be strong.