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With the November elections looming and political debates being held to shape future policy, a debate on the future of bioinformatics seems timely. Shared resources in bioinformatics is a topic of great current interest. The microarray gene expression database community is developing standards. Incyte is organizing a consortium of academic and commercial partners to develop a common architecture for genomics databases and tools. A Lifesciences Domain Task Force of the Object Management Group is taking submissions for gene expression, macromolecular structure, and entity types.