Dissemination
 The Dissemination Core has three specific aims that are designed to facilitate and encourage the
adoption of NA-MIC technology by the wider biomedical community. The first aim is to develop a
collaboration methodology for NA-MIC that will provide limited direct interactions with outside
researchers including a focus on training those researchers to become self-sufficient users of NA-MIC
software in their own research. This first aim will involve travel by dissemination
personnel to the collaborating laboratory, development of methods to integrate the investigator’s data
with NA-MIC software, and joint publication of the results of the analysis. It is expected that the
collaborations supported in this first aim will result in sites that have overcome the initial learning
curve associated with new techniques and as a result will become champions of the NA-MIC
technology and thus amplify our efforts. The second aim of the Dissemination Core is to support
research communities through participation in scientific meetings and related exhibitions. Activities in
this second aim will include maintaining a booth in the exhibit sections of selected meetings,
participating with the Training Core in teaching tutorial sessions, and related activities. The third aim
is to reach an even broader community than can be supported by the face-to-face activities in the first
two aims. Activities in the third aim include supporting and encouraging publication of NA-MIC
technology in appropriate scientific journals, maintaining a web site of NA-MIC-related journal papers,
and providing feedback mechanisms through which the research community can help us evaluate
and direct the effectiveness of NA-MIC technology in addressing the needs of biomedical researchers.
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