To achieve these goals, CBA encourages collaboration among biological scientists, mathematicians, and computer scientists and engineers on research, workshops, and training at all levels. Research collaboration among biologists, computer scientists, and information retrieval specialists from both academic and commercial organizations is strongly encouraged. To facilitate access to current information technology, support is provided for planning, designing, prototyping, implementing, and distributing biological databases, algorithms, and software relevant to analysis of biological information, and for new methods and software supporting construction, operation, and access to biological databases. In addition, DBI provides both national and international coordination of the multinational Arabidopsis genome research project.
Past issues are also available from the division.
Funds are also provided for curatorial databases and for linking the information associated with the collection to other information resources or scientific databases. Long-term support of a collection or repository will require the development and use of such databases. Supplements are also provided to underwrite the involvement of undergraduate and high school students in collection-based research.