August 14, 2002

Executive Summary

An account of meetings with people and research groups associated with SWEGENE is given. Conclusions are drawn from these meetings and used to write a tentative plan for how to proceed with a SWEGENE bioinformatics platform.

The main purpose of a bioinformatics platform within SWEGENE should be to provide computational facilities and logistical support [databases & infrastructure] for scientists whose primary research in biology and medicine benefit from computational approaches.

A secondary goal that should be sought by a bioinformatics facility is to make algorithms and analysis methods accessible for non-computational biologists.