Mission

The NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) provides for the appropriate use of data science, informatics, and IT, exemplifying a commitment to customer service, teamwork, pride, professionalism and resulting in optimal support of the NCI's mission to accelerate the prevention and treatment of cancer.

National Cancer Informatics Program

NCI established the National Cancer Informatics Program (NCIP) within CBIIT as the Institute's primary biomedical-informatics initiative. The NCIP will build on and extend investments that NCI has made during the past two decades to develop the informatics assets and computational approaches needed to support scientific discovery and clinical application in the postgenomics era.

More information is available about applications and downloads.

NCI Computer Services

CBIIT manages the IT infrastructure that supports scientific and administrative activities across NCI. Intramural services include support for desktop computers and users, core information technologies, network management and operations, centralized network storage, and network security. NCI employees can visit the NCI Computer Services Intranet for more information.

Technical Support

Questions or comments? Contact CBIIT.

News

CBIIT Speaker Series

The CBIIT Speaker Series is a bi-weekly knowledge-sharing forum featuring internal and external speakers discussing topics of interest to the biomedical-informatics and cancer-research communities.

Next speaker: Samir Courdy, University of Utah, and Joyce Niland, City of Hope, Wed., Dec. 7, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. ET

Visit the CBIIT Speaker Series Wiki for more details.

Visit the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series YouTube Playlist to view previous presentations.

NCI Biomedical Informatics Blog

Check out the latest NCI Informatics blog post!  Helen M. Berman, Ph.D., and Stephen K. Burley, M.D., of the RCSB Protein Databank discuss the Protein Data Bank and the Importance of Sustaining Primary Data Archives.

CBIIT leadership, staff, and guests from across NCI and the extramural community use this blog to discuss topics relevant to the future direction of NCIP and other NCI-supported research-and-development efforts centered on biomedical informatics and its role in furthering cancer research and care. Such topics include open-source and open-development initiatives, next-generation sequencing, the promulgation of standards to support interoperability, and challenges surrounding the study and analysis of large, complex data collections, most notably data management and integration.