1.National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) of NIH
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/)
the home of many important databases including GenBank
the home of many important bioinformatics tools including BLAST
2.European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
(http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/)
Some of the most powerful research groups in bioinformatics
Numerous tools and databases
3.Institute of Systems Biology (ISB)
(http://www.systemsbiology.org)
A new center led by Dr. Leroy Hood
3.Computational Biology Institute of Oak Ridge National Lab
(http://compbio.ornl.gov) 数据挖掘实验室
One of the first computational biology center in the world
4.The Institute for Gonomic Research
(TIGR, http://www.tigr.org/)
Developed many useful tools for microbial research
5.Swiss-Prot
(http://www.tigr.org/)
Provide the protein database and proteomics tools
