NATIONAL ANIMAL GENOME RESEARCH PROGRAM
Bioinformatics Coordination Program
  Mission

Bioinformatics is the application of computer technology to the management of biological information. It is an essential infrastructure underlining genomics research. The recent summary and recommendations from the USDA Stakeholder Workshop on Animal Bioinformatics (2003) provides a useful guide to our works. In brief, the challenges in bioinformatics support/research for animal genomics may involve:

  • Effective data collection, organization and management
  • Rapid development of most needed bioinformatics tools and resources
  • Efficient use of tools for data analysis

We at NRSP-8 bioinformatics coordination program strive to serve the animal genomics research community to better use computer science tools and methods, to best utilize available resources, and to effectively share, combine, manage, manipulate, and analyze information from genomics/genetics studies.

(December 2003, Zhiliang Hu)
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Contact: NAGRP Bioinformatics Team 		May 12, 2008 (Monday)