and Centers (ICs)” and that they “might not otherwise be supported by the NIH ICs because of their scope.” Furthermore, the Roadmap was intended to be an ‘incubator’ where programs could be developed and then potentially ‘adopted’ by interested NIH ICs after Roadmap (now formalized as the NIH Common Fund) support ended. This reflects a tension that permeated the management of the NCBC program, that between the desire to develop centers with broad themes to optimize the utilization of computational expertise and the need to mesh the program with the disease, organ system, and life stage-focused institutes and centers whose missions are intended to be the prime potential beneficiaries of these centers. These considerations played a significant role in the development and management of the NCBC program. 4e11
['Jeremy M Berg']
National centers for biomedical computing: from the BISTI report to the future