The myoglobin protein with a hydration 

 of 350 water molecules. 



BRHR: Medical Informatics Fellowships and 

 Biomedical Science Education 



NIH provides training and an ongoing investment in fun- 

 damental tectinology development. NCRR and NLM 

 both sponsor formal degree-granting fellowship training 

 in medical informatics, and cross-disciplinary training of 

 established investigators in the use of advanced com- 

 puting systems and methods. NCRR also supports a 

 pilot project to educate high school science teachers and 

 their students about new computing technologies for 

 biomedical science. 



FY 1993 Accomplishments 



HPCS: Evaluation of Parallel Systems 



DCRT evaluated a 128 processor Intel Touchstone 

 Gamma Prototype Parallel Computer and associated 

 system software on biomedical problems in structural 

 biology, computational chemistry, image processing, and 

 genetic database searching. 



DCRT designed and implemented remote file access 

 and communication systems software for this computer. 



NCRR funded a Kendall Square Research KSR-1 com- 

 puter jointly with NSF and ARPA at the Cornell Theory 

 Center, and is evaluating its efficiency and effectiveness 

 for biological problems. 



NREN: Medical Connections Program 



NLM initiated a Medical Connections program in collabo- 

 ration with NSF, to provide support for academic medical 

 centers to connect to the Internet. In addition, NLM has 

 provided support for a pilot project to connect rural hos- 

 pitals in the Northwest to the Internet. This project is 

 coordinated by the University of Washington Health 

 Sciences Center Library, a Regional Medical Library in 

 the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. 



NREN: Access to X-ray Images 



NLM began developing a system to provide Internet- 

 mediated access to an electronic archive of 20,000 digi- 

 tal X-ray images for medical research purposes. 



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