Bioinformatics Resource Centers for Infectious Diseases

Published on 2008-08-30 00:00:00

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) supports research related to the basic understanding of microbiology and immunology leading to the development of vaccines, therapeutics, and medical diagnostics for the prevention, treatment, and diagnosis of infectious and immune-mediated diseases. The NIAID, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, has a requirement to maintain Bioinformatics Resource Centers, which have become the public repository of genomics and related data generated by NIAID-supported genomics programs and grants and contracts as well as publicly available data generated by the scientific community.  more…