More information can be found on the center's Web site . NCGR is a center to facilitate the flow of information and resources from genome projects into both public and private sectors. A broadly based board of governors provides direction and strategy for the center's development. NCGR opened in Santa Fe in July 1994, with its initial bioinformatics work being developed through a cooperative 5-year agreement with the Department of Energy funded in July 1995. Committed to serving as a resource for all genomic research, the center workscollaboratively with researchers and seeks input from users to ensure that tools and projects under development meet their needs.
All data are freely available to the public.
The major goals of GSDB are to provide the support structure for storing sequence data and to furnish useful data-retrieval services. A corollary to this is GSDB's conviction that researchers know their areas of expertise much better than a database curator and, therefore, they should be given ownership and control over the data they submit to the database. The true role of the GSDB staff is to help researchers submit data to and retrieve data from the database. During 1996, GSDB underwent a major renovation to support new data types and concepts that are important to genomic research. Tables within the database were restructured, and new tables and data fields were added.