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The Communication Core of the Great Lakes Regional Center of Excellence in Bioterrorism and Emerging Infectious Diseases (GLRCE) supported the overarching structure of the Center in ways that promoted and facilitated scientific collaboration, enhanced access to cutting-edge resources needed for the research, and encouraged the ready exchange of information and ideas to enhance the pace of research. We provided the communication tools necessary to support this activity and monitored the use of the tools, providing support and training in the use of the tools, and facilitating exchanges within and between sites. The technology provided by the core consisted of easily accessible tools that enabled communication within and between projects, and supported communication between the GLRCE participants and the administrative core. Specifically, we employed collaboration technology, called CTools, developed at the University of Michigan  (see also Sakai’s public website ). Through the Communications core, GLRCE members were encouraged to work together with the same ease and flexibility as if they had been in the same institution. |
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