published on Monday, April 11, 2005

SARA and Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre foundation (NBIC) sign core partner agreement

On 29 March 2005, Dr. R.G. Kok, operational director of NBIC, and SARA director Dr. Ir. A. Osseyran signed the core partner agreement between NBIC and SARA. The signing of this agreement confirms the productive cooperation that has been established between NBIC and SARA in the previous years.

One of the aims of NBIC is to stimulate and coordinate scientific research in association with genomics, bioinformatics and data processing. A specific point of interest is the setup, management and development of bioinformatics support activities and a bioinformatics (knowledge) infrastructure in the Netherlands. The realization of joint bioinformatics research, support and education community in the border region of genomics, bioinformatics and data processing in the Netherlands is of importance as well.

The cooperation with the NBIC fits seamless into SARA’s role as national e-Science Support Center. SARA offers NBIC services in the field of high performance computing, high performance networking, hosting and visualization. SARA manages the portal of the NBIC, and also several applications among which Rosetta, Blast and SRS.

Besides NBIC and SARA, the Radboud University Nijmegen (Radboud) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) are core partners as well. Both Radboud and UvA give an important contribution by introducing long-term experience and know-how in the field of (bio)informatics.

SARA is very pleased with the cooperation and expects to further develop her reputation in the life sciences with NBIC, Radboud and UvA in the coming years.

SARA director Dr. Ir. A. Osseyran (left) and Dr. R.G. Kok, operational director of NBIC, sign the agreement.