Links to North Carolina Initiatives:

• GridNexus
• NC BioGrid
• North Carolina Biotechnology Center
• NCSC High Performance Bioinformatics
• North Carolina Genomics/Bioinformatics Public Initiatives
• Duke University - Web Services for Bioinformatics
• Mountain Area Grid Innovation Collaborative (MAGIC)

Other Consortia, Organizations, and Funding Agencies:

• National Center for Bioinformatics Information (NCBI)
• Plant Genome Project Web Sites
• Grain Genes Database
• The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)
• EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute
• National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR)
• Bioinformatics.org
• Interoperable Informatics Infrastructure Consortium (www.i3c.org)
• NSF Middleware Initiative
• Genomes to Life U.S. Department of Energy

Companies:

Conferences:

• The 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology - Edmonton, Canada, August 3-7, 2002
• IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics Conference - Stanford University, August 14-16, 2002
• O'Reilly Biocon 2003 - San Diego, February 3-6, 2003

Software and Tools:

• NCBI tools
• InforMax BioRS - Biological Integration and Retrieval System
• Main page for SAS AppDev Studio
• Microarray Gene Expression Database Group
• Page-of-Servers at Baylor College of Medicine
• Plant Genomes Central - Genome Projects in Progress
• White paper for SAS P21 software
• Sequence analysis website in Berlin
• GeneMAPP is a free computer application designed to visualize gene expression data on maps representing biological pathways and groupings of genes.
• ZmDB ACE Query help page - Querying the Plant Sequence Database
• IBM Life Sciences Framework
• biok: Biology Interactive Object Kit

Unsorted Links to Web Resources:

• What is Bioinformatics?
• Bioinformatics Education
• NCGR Tool Framework and a paper on the tool
• NDSU Plant Abiotic Stress, Genomics, and Bioinformatics Group
• A paper on simple mathematical description of some issues in annotation of genome information (pdf file)
• Bioinformatics2Go web site at Iowa State University - Volker Brendel.
• Grid Computing and Technologies
• Extending traditional query-based integration approaches for functional characterization of post-genomic data (PDF file)
• Comparative genomics of Arabidopsis and maize: prospects and limitations - This is paper describes the kind of results I would like to be able to get easily using our interface. Ann
• Open Bio Sequence Database Access Plan (pdf file)
• What is Microsoft's .NET software platform?
• UofM Bioinformatics Graduate Minor
• Speedup: At what cost? - online O'Reilly article about the BLAST algorithm
• Biologists: Get with the program! - online journal article from Modern Drug Discovery, March 2002
• Marching ahead in bioinformatics - online news story from 26 March 2002.
• Bio gold rush could pay off for enterprise IT - online InfoWorld article
• Selected Major Grid Application and Deployment Projects in Science and Engineering