INDUSTRY UPDATE

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THE INSTITUTE FOR Computational Genomics, Inc. (INCOGEN), the College of William and Mary, and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech (VBI) have announced plans to work together to create a bioinformatics program. As part of its efforts to develop the program, INCOGEN will invest $2.4 million to relocate from South Carolina to an existing building in the Busch Corporate Center in James City County, Va., where it wll employ numerous technology specialists. Virginia successfully competed with North Carolina, Ohio, and Colorado for this project.

INCOGEN is a founding member of the Interoperable Informatics Infrastructure Consortium, known as 13C. This organization is comprised of 70+ international leaders from major life science and IT companies. Its purpose is to develop common protocols and interoperable technologies for data exchange and knowledge management for the life sciences community.