National Institutes of Health (NIH) - Home Page

Description: Official website of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH is one of the world's foremost medical research centers. An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the Federal focal point for health research. The NIH website offers health information for the public as well as medical professionals. There's extensive information on funding opportunities and links to the many Institutes and Centers that make-up NIH such as the National Cancer Institute and the National Library of Medicine.

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LoBoS
At the National Institute for Health. System configuration, status, benchmarks, links to software, news articles, and information for users.
http://www.lobos.nih.gov/
Top/Computers/Parallel_Computing/Beowulf/Cluster_Sites

Medical Articles Records GroundTruth
This site contains ground truth data for biomedical images to help develop algorithms to automatically extract information from the printed page. There is also a visual tool and analysis tool called Rover to aid researchers with their algorithms.
http://marg.nlm.nih.gov/index2.asp
Top/Computers/Programming/Graphics/Algorithms_and_Data_Structures

NIH Computer Center - Using Assembler Language
Inhouse doc for NIH, but also contains general assembler programming tips.
http://datacenter.cit.nih.gov/assem/
Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Assembly/370

Genometric Analysis Simulation Program (GASP)
Program to generate samples of family data based on user specified genetic models.
http://research.nhgri.nih.gov/gasp/
Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Fortran/Source_Code/Biology

ImageJ
Read and write GIF, JPEG, and ASCII. Read BMP, DICOM, and FITS. [Open Source, Public Domain]
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/
Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Java/Class_Libraries/Graphics/Data_Formats

Etdips
Clinical Image and Processing software. National Institute of Health Supported Visualization software for radiological 3D imaging. Free downloadable Windows 2000/NT/9x software for volume rendering, image processing and surface rendering.
http://www.cc.nih.gov/cip/software/etdips/
Top/Computers/Software/Graphics/3D

MedlinePlus: Drug Abuse
Resource that provides links to a wide range of substance abuse resources. Provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/drugabuse.html
Top/Health/Addictions/Substance_Abuse

MedlinePlus: Alcoholism
Offers information about Alcoholism. From the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/alcoholism.html
Top/Health/Addictions/Substance_Abuse/Alcoholism

NIAAA
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Supports and conducts biomedical and behavioral research on the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems.
http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/
Top/Health/Addictions/Substance_Abuse/Alcoholism

Alcohol Abuse Increases, Dependence Declines Across Decade
Compares alcohol abuse and alcoholism rates 1992 and 2002. NIAAA (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) is part of NIH.
http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/NewsEvents/NewsReleases/NESARCNews.htm
Top/Health/Addictions/Substance_Abuse/Alcoholism