Here at Penn. It's interdisciplinary and it's a new center, the Center for Bioinformatics. They were creating programs to help scientists find and manage information, and they were running a seminar series that was attracting people from beyond Penn's ivied walls. Some of the programs they were designing enable databases and computers to communicate with one another. Some enable scientists to visualize biological structures by transforming data normally expressed in long strings of characters into still and moving pictures.
Some programs create storage systems, and some analyze or allow manipulation of data.
But figuring out which kinds of databases needed accessing and which kinds of data needed visualizing requires more than just computer experts. They need to attract more people to their work to fill all those roles. So the group felt it was important to formalize their long-standing collaboration. The center will enable us to attract people. Chromosomes of a normal female Even before the center's creation, the informal bioinformatics group had started attracting people.