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Bioinformatics Organization, Inc. is located in Hudson, Massachusetts.

Mission statement

The Bioinformatics Organization, Inc. serves the scientific and educational needs of bioinformatic practitioners and the general public. We develop and maintain computational resources to facilitate world-wide communications and collaborations between people of all educational and professional levels. We provide and promote open access to the materials and methods required for, and derived from, research, development and education.

Membership

The Bioinformatics Organization provides associate (non-voting) membership to individuals. This type of membership is divided into two categories: Basic and Professional.

The Organization was established in 1998 by J.W. Bizzaro as a place to host collaborations in bioinformatics. In 2000, it had more than 100 members and a dozen projects. The Organization became incorporated in 2003 and currently has about 25,000 members and over 300 projects. It is now one of the largest affiliations in the field of bioinformatics, and the number of resources that we offer is on-par with the number offered by NCBI and EBI. However, we distinguish ourselves with our open membership and project hosting: anyone, anywhere can participate. The Organization is also well-known for its emphasis on open access to biological information as well as on Free and Open Source software.

Services

• Life sciences R&D: The Bioinformatics Organization provides group hosting services and a number of online tools, databases and forums, all free to use. Through our Bioinformatics Core Facility, we provide fee-based data analysis and software development services to cater to the needs of scientists and biomedical researchers.
• Education: In addition to the hosted resources, which are also available for educational use, the Bioinformatics Organization offers professional development courses for continuing scientific education. These are short, graduate- or postgraduate-level courses on computational topics of interest to prospective and practicing researchers in the life sciences.

Contact us

If you have any questions or comments, please see our contact page.

Board of Directors

Primary affiliations are in parentheses.

	J.W. Bizzaro, M.Sc. (Bioinformatics.Org) (Chairman)

	Damian Counsell, M.Sc. (UK Medical Research Council)

	Yong Huang, M.Sc. (YY Consulting Company)

	Martin Kucej, Ph.D. (Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas)

	Mark Luo, M.Sc. (OpenEvents.com)

	Peter St. Onge, M.Sc. (Proteomics Research Center, University of Toronto)

Jon K. Stewart, J.D. (Moser Patterson & Sheridan)

	Paul Stothard, Ph.D. (Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta)

	Prashanth Suravajhala, M.Sc. (Roskilde University)

	Gary Van Domselaar, Ph.D. (National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada)

Board of Advisers

Advisers are non-voting members of the Bioinformatics Organization who participate in the discussions and meetings of the Board of Directors in an advisory capacity alone.

• Joseph Landman, Ph.D. (Scalable Informatics LLC)
• Glen Otero, Ph.D. (Orion Multisystems)

Officers

• J.W. Bizzaro, M.Sc. (President)
• Gary Van Domselaar, Ph.D. (Vice President)
• Mark Luo, M.Sc. (Treasurer)
• Yevgeny Ioffe, M.Sc. (Clerk)

Former directors

• Marcos Oliveira de Carvalho
• Yevgeny Ioffe, M.Sc.
• Holly Miller, Ph.D.

Legal

Bioinformatics.Org is incorporated with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA as "Bioinformatics Organization, Inc." and as a non-profit organization. The Organization is in the process of obtaining 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status with the US IRS.

Please see the Terms of Service Agreement for members of Bioinformatics.Org.

Funding

The Bioinformatics Organization, Inc. relies upon the generous contributions of individuals and other organizations. Please see the contribute page for more information about helping Bioinformatics.Org. Currently, there are no government or foundation grants being used.

See also

• About the field of bioinformatics
• About the Bioinformatics.Org wiki