EMBL has established a Bioinformatics Advisory Committee. Members of the committee include Søren Brunak (Chairman) of the Technical University of Denmark, John Sulston of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Anna Tramontano of the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Martin Vingron of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, and Gunnar von Heijne of Stockholm University.
Christopher Yoo has joined Applied Biosystems as worldwide director of marketing for ABI’s molecular biology division. Yoo was previously head of strategy for IBM’s Information Based Medicine business unit.