Coakley Meghan F, Hurt Darrell E, Weber Nick, Mtingwa Makazi, Fincher Erin C, Alekseyev Vsevelod, Chen David T, Yun Alvin, Gizaw Metasebia, Swan Jeremy, Yoo Terry S, Huyen Yentram
Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch, Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health , Bethesda, Maryland.
Biovisualization Group, Unit on Computer Support Services, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health , Bethesda, Maryland.
3D Print Addit Manuf. 2014 Sep 1;1(3):137-140. doi: 10.1089/3dp.2014.1503.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched the NIH 3D Print Exchange, an online portal for discovering and creating bioscientifically relevant 3D models suitable for 3D printing, to provide both researchers and educators with a trusted source to discover accurate and informative models. There are a number of online resources for 3D prints, but there is a paucity of scientific models, and the expertise required to generate and validate such models remains a barrier. The NIH 3D Print Exchange fills this gap by providing novel, web-based tools that empower users with the ability to create ready-to-print 3D files from molecular structure data, microscopy image stacks, and computed tomography scan data. The NIH 3D Print Exchange facilitates open data sharing in a community-driven environment, and also includes various interactive features, as well as information and tutorials on 3D modeling software. As the first government-sponsored website dedicated to 3D printing, the NIH 3D Print Exchange is an important step forward to bringing 3D printing to the mainstream for scientific research and education.
美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）推出了NIH 3D打印交换平台，这是一个在线门户网站，用于发现和创建适合3D打印的生物科学相关3D模型，为研究人员和教育工作者提供一个可信赖的来源，以发现准确且信息丰富的模型。有许多3D打印的在线资源，但科学模型却很匮乏，生成和验证此类模型所需的专业知识仍然是一个障碍。NIH 3D打印交换平台通过提供新颖的基于网络的工具来填补这一空白，这些工具使用户能够从分子结构数据、显微镜图像堆栈和计算机断层扫描数据创建可直接打印的3D文件。NIH 3D打印交换平台在社区驱动的环境中促进开放数据共享，还包括各种交互式功能以及有关3D建模软件的信息和教程。作为首个政府资助的致力于3D打印的网站，NIH 3D打印交换平台是将3D打印引入科学研究和教育主流的重要一步。
