CVRG new front

Translational cardiovascular research often involves the collection and analysis of what we refer to as multi-scale data sets (SNP, mRNA expression, protein expression, imaging, ECG, clinical, etc.) from each patient in large cohorts. The CardioVascular Research Grid (CVRG) project is creating a suite of software tools and applications to facilitate multi-institutional collaborative research in cardiovascular science. The CVRG provides the cardiovascular research community with open source software tools and infrastructure that can be used to manage and analyze a broad range of cardiovascular data types. To do this, the CVRG team has defined a set of driving biomedical projects that help identify the informatics needs of the cardiovascular research community. The CVRG team then develops software to meet these needs.

The CVRG project is supported by the National Heart Lung & Blood Institute. It is an inter-disciplinary, collaborative effort bringing together biomedical and software systems researchers. The project is based at the Institute for Computational Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University, in collaboration with the Center for Comprehensive Informatics at Emory University, the Image Lab at Wake Forest University and the Computation Institute at The University of Chicago. The software architecture of the CVRG builds on and extends software systems developed by the participants of the project at these institutions as well as those developed in the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) and Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) projects.

The Johns Hopkins University

• Center for Cardiovascular Bioinformatics and Modeling
• Center for Imaging Sciences

Emory University

• Center for Comprehensive Informatics

Wake Forest University

• Image Lab

The University of Chicago

• Computation Institute