Informatics initiative

The Center for Medical Informatics plans to use a $1.5 million grant it was awarded last year to develop a computer system to analyze and compare tumor cells. The grant from the National Library of Medicine will allow researchers to test the Next Generation Internet using PathMaster, a software being developed at Yale to analyze cell images. Lymphoma and thyroid cells will be studied. As part of the project, the center will expand its database of malignant-cell images from 500 to 30,000 over the next three years, according to Director Perry L. Miller, M.D., Ph.D.