This page contains information about the progress on the NSF MRI project at the Department of Computer Science, University of Houston. The grant, titled Acquisition of a Hybrid System and Research Infrastructure for Large-Scale Integration of Biomedical Data, is the largest instrumentation grant ever awarded to the University of Houston by the NSF. The project's PI Dr. Zouridakis is joined on the project by Profs. Marc Garbey, Ioannis Kakadiaris, Ioannis Pavlidis, and Ricardo Vilalta, all Computer Science faculty. Preliminary data for this grant were obtained thanks to a highly competitive grant on Computational Data Grids for Scientific and Biomedical Applications that was funded last year by Microsoft.