Computational Bioscience and Engineering Laboratory

The Computational Bioscience and Engineering Laboratory (CBEL) is a research and development organization that provides engineering and computer science expertise to support biomedical research activities at the National Institutes of Health.

CBEL applies image processing and medical imaging technologies, high-performance parallel computing, high-speed networking, signal processing, state-of-the-art optical and electronic devices, bioinformatics, database technology, mathematical and statistical techniques, and modern hardware and software engineering principles to help solve biomedical research problems at NIH.

CBEL presently has projects in positron emission tomography and electron paramagnetic resonance imaging, virtual endoscopy, virus structure determination using electron microscopy, three-dimension echocardiography visualization, protein structure determination using x-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, computational radiotherapy, telemedicine with high resolution imaging, cDNA microarray analysis, human genetic linkage analysis, laser capture tissue microdissection and chromosome microdissection instrumentation systems design, cancer genome anatomy data visualization and storage, and computationally intensive statistical applications.

• Office of the Chief (OC)
• Bioinformatics and Molecular Analysis Section (BIMAS)
• Telemedicine Applied Imaging Section (TAIS)
• Signal Processing and Instrumentation Section (SPIS)