PATRIC: The Pathosystems Resource Integration Center

From the website.

September 2009, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a 5-year contract to Virginia Tech's CyberInfrastructure Division to support the biomedical research community's work on infectious diseases. The funding is being used to integrate vital information on pathogens, provide key resources and tools to scientists, and help researchers to analyze genomic, proteomic and other data arising from infectious disease research. The new contract supports the development of the PathoSystems Resource Integration Center (PATRIC); providing rich data and analysis tools for all bacterial species in the selected NIAID category A-C priority pathogens list. In addition, CyberInfrastructure Division continues to use its model of extensive collaboration with diverse scientific communities across the globe to jointly discover new biological knowledge, as well as focusing internally on biological research that CyberInfrastructure Division's infrastructure, data and analysis are uniquely positioned to develop.

The PATRIC project includes three primary collaborators: the University of Chicago, the University of Manchester, and New City Media. The University of Chicago is providing genome annotations and a PATRIC end-user genome annotation service using their Rapid Annotation using Subsystem Technology (RAST) system. The National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) at the University of Manchester is providing literature-based text mining capability and service. New City Media is providing assistance in website interface development.

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