Bioinformatics FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) - Research Centers

This resource is maintained by and © Damian Counsell, UK Medical Research Council Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomic Research (the RFCGR) 1998-2004.

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Centres of Bioinformatics Activity: Where is bioinformatics done?

The biggest and best source of bioinformatics links I have encountered is the Genome Web at the Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomics Research at the Genome Campus near Cambridge, UK. Most of the links below come from that resource. My list is necessarily limited by comparison.

• Research centres
• Sequencing centres
• Standards centres
• "Virtual" centres (for example consortia and communities)

Research centres

• Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia (CNB)
• Computational Biology and Informatics Laboratory at the University of Pennysylvania
• CIRB: Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche Biotecnologiche
• Cold Spring Harbor Labs
• European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
• Généthon
• GIRI: Genetic Information Research Institute
• MRC Human Genetics Unit
• MRC Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomics Research(RFCGR)
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Sequencing centres

• The Department of Genome Analysis at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Jena, Germany
• The Australian Genome Resesarch Facility
• Baylor College of Medicine
• Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, Canada
• Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Brazil

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Standards centres

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What virtual centres (for example consortia and communities) for bioinformatics activity are there?

• International Center for Cooperation in Bioinformatics network (ICCBnet)
• Belgian EMBnet node

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