About the Center
The Center for Comprehensive Informatics (CCI) is a new, multi-disciplinary center at Emory University. The Center promotes and fosters collaborative projects between software system researchers and scientific research groups. We carry out a broad research and software development agenda in high performance computing, biomedical informatics, Grid computing, translational research informatics, and imaging informatics. Our research and development efforts are motivated by the requirements of cutting edge scientific research projects. An increasing number of research projects employ complementary types of information sources and large volumes of data to perform detailed studies of mechanisms underlying physical and biological functions and processes. Data in these studies are generated by simulations or obtained from high-resolution, high-throughput instruments. A translational research project in biomedicine, for example, may gather clinical, molecular, pathology, and imaging data in order to target better treatments by performing comparative analysis of data from a subset of patients. Similar types of projects arise in many fields of science, engineering, and biomedicine. We develop innovative, open source software systems, tools, and applications to address the informatics requirements of such projects.
The CCI offers a stimulating environment with links to major Atlanta research institutions as well as excellent opportunities for interactions with research and development communities on a national and international level. The Center has strategic collaborative relationships and initiatives with research groups and departments within Emory University, the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Emory Winship Cancer Institute.
