NPACI Showroom - EdCenter

NPACI Tools for Informatics

The Digital Library Summary
( http://www.edcenter.sdsu.edu/repository/navDigLib.shtml )

Digital libraries, depositories and portals
(http://www.sdsc.edu/DigitalLibraries.html,
http://www.npaci.edu/online/v4.4/portals.html,
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu,
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu,
http://www.npaci.edu/enVision/v15.3/diglib.html)

NPACI's data-handling system connects mass storage, digital library, and data-access systems through a common interface, the SDSC Storage Resource Broker (SRB), which has been installed at 14 sites. (http://www.npaci.edu/Thrusts/DI/handling.html)

DICE scientific and art data collection system
(http://www.npaci.edu/DICE/AMICO,
http://www.npaci.edu/envision/v15.3/amico.html)

XML data transfer format
(http://www.npaci.edu/DICE/MIX,
http://www.npaci.edu/envision/v15.3/mix.html)

The Active Data Repository (ADR project in University of Maryland) provides infrastructure to build parallel database systems and integrate storage, retrieval, and processing of multi-dimensional data sets (http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hpsl/ResearchAreas/ADR.htm )

Meta-Chaos (University of Maryland) is a meta-library and active data repository that provides interoperability between data parallel, run-time libraries and languages (http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hpsl/Chaos.htm,
http://www.npaci.edu/envision/v15.1/metachaos.html)

Bioinformatics -- Processing biological data collection, e.g. Human Genome Project data (http://www.npaci.edu/Alpha/Bioinformatics,
http://www.npaci.edu/envision/v15.4/bioinformatics.html)
Protein Data Bank Contains over 11,000 3-D models of proteins and nucleic acids. It includes LIMA (Ligand Matching server)
(http://www.rcsb.org/pdb,
http://www.npaci.edu/envision/v15.2/legion.html,
http://www.npaci.edu/envision/v15.4/ondrechen.html,
http://www.npaci.edu/envision/v14.4/ie_molsci.html,
http://www.npaci.edu/envision/v14.4/rcsb_pdb.html,
http://www.scripps.edu/pub/olson-web)
Biological Data Representation This project is creating methods for high-performance querying of molecular biology sequence and structure databases (http://www.npaci.edu/Thrusts/MS/datarep.html)
Biology workbench 3.2 allows to search many popular protein and nucleic acid sequence databases. Database searching is integrated with access to a wide variety of analysis and modeling tools (NCSA) (http://workbench.sdsc.edu)
Real-Time Coastal Data Acquisition (http://www.npaci.edu/Research/ESS/projects/coastal-data.html )
SWB (Sociology WorkBench): Analysis of sociological datasets
(http://edcenter.sdsu.edu)