This site aims to provide a central access to the french bioinformatics platforms, including in particular those from the 8 genopoles and other RIO (Inter-Organisms Research) platforms. The platforms provide the scientific community with many tools, databases and documents, either developped within the platform itself or widely used in bioinformatics. The diversity and number of offered ressources being impressive, the Genopole National Network (RNG) and other public research organisms wished to make the access to these resources easier, as well as to reinforce the links between the platforms.

This site allows to access to the platforms resources

• geographically, by direct links to the platforms websites,
• thematically, by guiding the visitor to the tools, data or documents he is looking for.

It is also meant to be a communication tool between the platforms, by announcing meetings, seminars and presentations, and by involving the researchers of each platform in the evolution of this portal.

This site gathers 13 french bioinformatics platforms, 8 of them depending on the corresponding genopole. These 13 platforms are :

• the plaform of the genopole of Lille
• the platform of OUEST-Genopole
• the platform of the genopole Grand-Est (Strasbourg)
• the Computing Center of Pasteur Paris
• the Paris Resource in Structural Bioinformatics (Ressource Parisienne en Bioinformatique Structurale, RPBS)
• the MIG (Mathematics Computing and Genome) unit of INRA Jouy-en-Josas
• Genoplante-Info, maintained by the URGI (Genomic-Info Research Unit) unit of INRA in Evry.
• the Genoscope, French National Sequencing Center
• the Rhône-Alpes Bioinformatics Center, PRABI (Lyon-Grenoble)
• the Bioinformatics Center of Bordeaux (CBiB)
• the platform of the genopole of Toulouse
• the IGS (Genomic and Structural Information) platform of the genopole of Marseille-Nice
• the IMGT (ImMunoGeneTics) platform and other servers in association with the genopole Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon

They should provide

• computing capacity,
• storage capacity (for local users mainly),
• access to the most used software and to the new tools developped locally,
• support for these software and tools,
• teaching and training in bioinformatics.