Overview

The University of Washington Structural Informatics Group is an interdisciplinary team of computer scientists, engineers and biologists, which is part of the Department of Neurobiology and Biophysics (formerly Department of Biological Structure) and the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, with strong ties to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

All members of this group have retired or moved on, so this site is now a partial record of research over the past thirty years. It is currently maintained by emeritus professor Jim Brinkley, longtime director of this group. There continue to be some active services on this site, which can be most easily found by clicking the buttons at the bottom of the home page. Historical and more detailed information can be found in the menu items, which are described in the following sections.

Projects: Projects are the individual units of work in this group. Each project has a lead (perhaps a student working on a thesis), other contributing personnel, and any services created as part of the project. Projects are often related to each other, as for example, one project might be the successor to a previous project or a subproject of another project. Projects may be active or inactive, where active can either mean actively being developed or actively being maintained. Most projects are currently inactive.

Services: A service is usually a web application created as a result of work on a particular project, although it can also be a pointer to downloadable resource such as the Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA). A service is always associated with a project, and a project may have more than one service. Example services are the FMA browser and the Digital Anatomist Interactive Atlases. Services can either be working or not working.

Funding: Projects are or were funded by one or more Funding Sources, usually NIH, but also some other government and private agencies.

Personnel: A person can be classified by their role in the project (eg director, staff, collaborator) at the time they worked with SIG, the years they worked with SIG, and whether they are currently or previously associated with SIG. A person can be the lead or member of one or more projects.

Publications: Projects often lead to publications, which are managed by a separate Eprints application.

Vocabularies: Controlled terminology for annotating other components of this site.