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Anatomy Browser for the Digital Anatomist

The Anatomy Browser's educational features are illustrated with images by John W. Sundsten, Ph.D.

The research component of the Bench to Bedside Project, the Anatomy Browser is a part of the Digital Anatomist Program at the University of Washington. With the Browser, health professionals can access a large knowledge base and database of structural biology. For the Bench to Bedside Project, the Anatomy Browser software was installed, as a demonstration, at the National Library of Medicine to test remote access of the databases -- specifically, network connectivity, routing, and latency.

James Brinkley:

Since it is not feasible to replicate all the information in one place, or to provide very high speed computing to each person, a cost-effective solution is to use high speed networks to link users to remotely-stored information and high-performance computing resources. In this way, it will be possible for even the most remote user to have access to the latest information, and thereby to be competitive in the global information economy.

The problem of providing remote access to structural information in biology is perhaps one of the best examples of the need... Structural information, while extremely important for medical research, education and patient care, is generally not available from remote sites because the number of bits of information is too high. In the Digital Anatomist Project we are developing the tools to provide remote access to a growing structural information resource. The Anatomy Browser remotely accesses our structural information server at the U.W.

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