1. BioGrid Texas (BiGTX) biogrid.uta.edu biogrid.uta.edu Virtual Research Park Healthcare Collaborative Network

2. BioGrid Texas (BiGTX) Collaborative research, development and information- sharing system for Life Sciences and Health Care –Virtual Research Park (VRP) –Healthcare Collaborative Network (HCN) Allows geographically dispersed R&D teams and health care organizations to collaborate, access grid and use custom group applications Utilizes high-performance grid computing technology infrastructure at UTA

3. BioGrid Research Groups Cancerous Lesion Change Detection –Skin Cancer Lesion Diagnostics & Image Analysis –UTSW Dermatology and UTA CSE/BME Virtual Rural Medicine –The intent of this project is to provide connectivity, medical diagnostic utilities, medical image management tools and the real-time physician-patient interfaces between rural health clinics and community hospitals, and medical specialists concentrated in large urban areas. –UTA, IBM and Valor Telecom UTA Smart Hospital and Health System –Simulated Hospital with Smart Mannequins, Virtual Learning/Training for Nurses and Physicians –UTA School of Nursing, COS and COE

4. BioGrid Research Groups Biodefense –Rapid response to bioterror agents and emerging biothreats –UTSW, UTA and MD Anderson Cancer Center Virtual Simulated Surgery –Virtual surgery using haptic devices for training physicians in a wide variety of endoscopic and minimally invasive surgery techniques –UTA Electrical Engineering and UTSW Medical Center Department of Surgery Pseudo and Retrogene Research Group –Chicken and Mouse Computational Genomics –UTA Biology, UTA CSE, and International Collaboration

5. BioGrid Research Groups Knowledge Mapping –Virtual brainstorming that takes advantage of the space between ideas where discovery often occurs –UTA COS and Troubadour Technology Virtual Group Dynamics –The psychology of virtual group interactions and behavior as it relates to productivity –UTA Psychology CONNECT –Wireless technology to provide communication services for disabled –UTA COS, COE and National Symptom Management –Group collaboration aimed at minimizing pain, fatigue, cognitive impairment, nausea –UTA Psychology and MD Anderson Cancer Center

6. BioGrid Common User Interface Single sign-on user login provides access to high-performance, personalized life science and health care portal environment

7. BioGrid Account Request

8. BioGrid Utilities Communications and Collaboration e-mail Calendar Instant Message Forums User Groups Chat News Groups System Alerts e-Learning Tech Support Web Conference Video Audio Polling Sharing White Board Brain Storm

9. BioGrid Utilities Personalized News and Information

10. BioGrid Utilities Skin Lesion Image Upload

11. BioGrid Utilities Skin Lesion Segmentation Analysis

13. BioGrid Utilities Skin Lesion Shape Analysis

14. BioGrid Utilities Skin Cancer Quiz

15. BioGrid Utilities Skin Lesion Query by Example

16. BioGrid Utilities Skin Lesion Query by Features

17. BioGrid Utilities Skin Lesion Query by Diagnosis

18. BioGrid Utilities Genomics/Bioinformatics Tools

21. BioGrid Utilities Medical/Biological Text Mining http://invention.swmed.edu/etblast/etblast.shtml

22. BioGrid Utilities Medical/Biological Text Mining

23. BioGrid Utilities Grid Computing Tools

25. BioGrid Utilities Web Conferencing

28. BioGrid Utilities Knowledge Mapping http://www.ideaweb.modwest.com/doc/summary.html

29. BioGrid Utilities e-Learning

30. BioGrid Utilities Application Support

31. BioGrid Hardware Horsepower provided by IBM hardware connected to UTA Distributed & Parallel Computing Cluster (DPCC)

32. BioGrid Future Plans BioGrid Texas contact Paul Medley (medley@uta.edu)medley@uta.edu