Glossary

AMC: Amsterdam Medical Center, Academic hospital of UvA. http://www.amc.nl/

BATT: BioAssist Think Tank: a group of faculty members that help shape BioAssist

BBMRI: Biomedical and Biomolecular Resources Initiative. A European Biobanking organization. The Dutch branch is called BBMRI-NL. http://bbmri.nl/

BET: BioAssist Engineering Team, the group of project leaders that coordinate the task forces in BioAssist and software engineers that professionalize software for wider use http://www.nbic.nl/support/bet/

BIGgrid: Dutch node of the european grid initiative, making Grid computing and other high performance computing facilities available. http://www.biggrid.nl/

BioAssist: Bioinformatics support programme of NBIC http://www.nbic.nl/support/

BioRange: Bioinformatics research programme of NBIC http://www.nbic.nl/research/

BioWise: Bioinformatics education programme of NBIC http://www.nbic.nl/education/

BRS: Bioinformatics Research Support, a group of bioinformaticians that help clinicians and other users of bioinformatics to solve their current small bioinformatics problem http://www.nbic.nl/support/brs/

CWA: Concept Web Alliance, a world wide collaboration targeting open data exchange via semantic web techniques http://www.nbic.nl/about-nbic/affiliated-organizations/cwa/

DTL = Dutch Techcentres for the Life Sciences

eBioGrid: The e-Science task force of BioAssist http://www.nbic.nl/support/e-science/

eGi: European Grid Infrastructure. http://www.egi.eu/

EMBL-EBI: European Bioinformatics Institute. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/

EMC: Erasmus University Medical Center, Academic hospital of the EUR. http://www.erasmusmc.nl/

e-Science: "Enhanced science", any science that is enhanced through computer collaboration and computer infrastructure.

EUR: Erasmus University Rotterdam. http://www.eur.nl/

Faculty: NBIC Faculty are thought leaders in BioInformatics that together determine the direction in which they think NBIC should be moving. NBIC Faculty members can take part in the Think Tanks for BioRange, BioAssist or BioWise.

IMI: Innovative Medicines Initiative, a European organization containing the European commission and all major pharmaceutical industry represented in Europe. http://www.imi.europa.eu/

LOBIN: Organized Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS; in Dutch HBO: higher vocational training) that have a Bachelor of Applied Science programme in bioinformatics. http://www.nbic.nl/about-nbic/affiliated-organisations/lobin/

LUMC: Leiden University Medical Center. http://www.lumc.nl 

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NCSB: Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology. http://www.ncsb.nl/

NKI: Nederlands Kanker Instituut (Netherlands Cancer Institute). http://www.nki.nl/

NMC: Netherlands Metabolomics Centre. http://www.metabolomicscentre.nl/

NPC: Netherlands Proteomics Centre. http://www.netherlandsproteomicscentre.nl/

Open PHACTS: Open Pharmacological Concepts Triple Store, a project of the IMI. http://www.openphacts.org/

PRI: Plant Research International, associated to the WUR. http://www.pri.wur.nl/

RSG = Regional Student Group - a group of bioinformatics PhD students in the Netherlands - which is part of the world-wide network of RSG's coordinated by the Student Council of the ISCB.

RU: Radboud Universiteit (Nijmegen) http://www.ru.nl/

RUG: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen University http://www.rug.nl/

SARA: Center in Amsterdam that coordinates access to large scale compute facilities for Dutch academic research http://www.sara.nl/

SURF: Organization that sets up academic network infrastructure in the Netherlands. Collaboration of the Universities http://www.surf.nl/

SIB: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. http://www.isb-sib.ch/

Task Force (BioAssist): A group of scientific programmers under leadership of academic and technical supervision that work together to solve common problems in a specific field of bioinformatics http://www.nbic.nl/support/task-forces/

UMCG: University Medical Center Groningen, the academic hospital of Groningen University http://www.umcg.nl/

UvA: University of Amsterdam (see also VU)

VU: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Free University of Amsterdam, see also UvA)

VUMC: Vrije Universiteit Medisch Centrum, the academic hospital of VU

W3C: The World Wide Web consortium

WUR: Wageningen University and Research center