BioneQ: A bioinformatics resource for life science research

魁北克生物信息学网络(BioneQ)成立于2001年，由魁北克基因组公司提供赠款。BioneQ现在在蒙大略大学的罗伯特-塞德格伦中心内运营，该中心是一个生物信息学和基因组学研究中心。BioneQ的目标是通过提供科学家在其研究环境中无法随时获得的集成生物信息学服务，促进魁北克和加拿大的生命科学研究。为实现这一目标，BioneQ有四个主要战略：--提供为生命科学家量身定做的专业生物信息学培训；--提供对高性能计算资源的访问；--提供生物信息学支持：服务台、定制编程和分析；--促进生物信息学研究人员与生命科学家之间的新合作。在目前的提案中，BioneQ打算将其服务扩展到魁北克(并最终在其他地方)的整个生命科学家社区，包括学术、公共和企业部门。几个主要的研究项目已经证明了它们对BioneQ服务的依赖。但该提案将允许这些项目和其他项目继续产生高质量的研究。

The Bioinformatics Network of Québec (BioneQ) was created in 2001 by a grant from Genome Québec. BioneQ now operates from within the Robert-Cedergren Center at the Université de Montréal, a center for research in bioinformatics and genomics. The goal of BioneQ is to facilitate life science research in Québec and Canada by offering integrated bioinformatics services that are not readily available to scientists in their research environment. BioneQ has four primary strategies for achieving this goal: - Provide professional bioinformatics training tailored to life scientists, - Supply access to high-performance computing resources, - Offer bioinformatics support: help desk, custom programming and analysis, - Facilitate new collaborations between bioinformatics researchers and life scientists. In the current proposal, BioneQ intends to expand its services to the entire community of life scientists in Quebec (and eventually elsewhere), in the academic, public and corporate sectors.  Several major research programs have documented their dependence upon BioneQ's services.  This proposal will allow those programs and others to continue to produce quality research.