Center for Biomedical Resources
Introduction
Center for Biomedical Resources at NHRI aims at supporting biomedical research through providing high quality research resources services in selected areas. Our goals include
- To develop and provide research resources services
- To promote sharing of biomedical resources through collaboration
- To establish research support infrastructure by incorporating technical support, consultation and training and education programs into the research resources services we provide.
A streamline from technical support, administrative workflow to service help desk has been built to provide timely and comprehensive services. Advisory committees are formed to supervise the strategy of services developments as well as to review the performances of the services. Major services provided include National Health Insurance Research Database, Bioinformatics Core Facility and NHRI Cell Bank, which are described as follows:
National Health Research Database
http://www.nhri.org.tw/nhird/
Taiwan launched a single-payer National Health Insurance (NHI) program on 1st, March 1995.
As of February 2007, 22.43 million individuals of Taiwanese population were enrolled in this program.
The NHI's database system contains registration files, original claim data and reimbursement data.
Large computerized databases derived from this system by the
Bureau of National Health Insurance(BNHI)
are reconstructed into the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD)
by fully trained scientists in the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) and has been provided to researchers in Taiwan for research purposes since year 2000.
Bioinformatics Core Facility
http://bioinfo.nhri.org.tw
Since 1998, NHRI has devoted great efforts in providing on-line sequence analysis
tools, databases and mirror sites, as well as bioinformatics training courses,
workshops and symposia to support bioinformatics research in Taiwan. These efforts
led to the establishment of Bioinformatics Core Facility of
Genomic Medicine and Biotechnology Development (The GMBD Bioinformatics Core, http://www.tbi.org.tw),
sponsored by National Research Program for Genomic Medicine, through collective efforts from NHRI,
National Hsing Hua University, National Chiao Tung University and National Cheng Kung University to provide integrated bioinformatics services to researchers in Taiwan.
NHRI Cell Bank
http://www.nhri.org.tw/cellbank/
NHRI Cell Bank has been established to provide authenticated high quality cell lines to researchers in Taiwan.
It is located and managed in the
Bioresource Collection and Research Center of Food Industry Research
and Development Institute, Taiwan. With the joint efforts of the two institutions, NHRI Cell Bank serves
as collection center for locally established cell lines as well as the training center
for cell culture quality control techniques in Taiwan. Standard operation procedures of the collection,
storage and distribution of cell cultures has been established and the management system has passed ISO9001-2000 certification since year 2001.
Activities
Annually held activities in the Center for Biomedical Resources includes workshops, symposiums and training courses of topics on national health insurance related research, bioinformatics and animal cell culture. The purpose of these activities is to disseminate developments in our services, promote interaction among researchers and to enable users getting familiar with the tools and services we provide.
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Research Resources Series 2007
(2007/09/07 - 2007/09/12) - Research Resources Series 2006
(2006/09/08 - 2006/09/21) - Research Resources Series 2005
(2005/09/02 - 2005/09/06) - Research Resources Series 2004
(2004/08/26 - 2004/09/07) - Research Resources Series 2003
(2003/08/21 - 2003/09/25) - Research Resources Series 2002
(2002/05/31 - 2002/07/26) - Research Resources Series 2001
(2001/05/28 - 2001/06/07) - Research Resources Series 2000
(2000/04/26 - 2000/06/02) - Research Resources Week '99
(1999/04/12 – 1999/04/14) - Research Resources Week '98
(1998/04/13 – 1998/04/17)