国际基因组源中心（The National Center for Genome Resources， NCGR http://www.ncgr.org/,）8月25日开放了一个综合系统软件平台。
这一平台名为ISYS，是一个将独立的生物信息软件工具、数据、分析程序和可视工具结合起来的系统。在2001年NCGR与国际农业研究咨询小组（Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research）为了增加作物产量开发出了这一平台。现在研究者们可以利用这一系统进行本系统基础研究或者其它研究课题。
介绍如下：
The National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is an independent, nonprofit research institution that develops and uses informatics for biological discovery.
Scientists at NCGR study the influence of genetic variability of both host and pathogen on infectious disease progression and its subsequent impact on human health. Computational biologists, population geneticists, and mathematicians are developing and using novel algorithms and statistical approaches to model complex biological systems. Particular emphasis is placed on meeting the challenges presented in systems biology today, including sparse experimental datasets, poorly defined biological networks, and data collected on disparate timescales.
NCGR is a unique provider of professionally engineered software and computational discovery platforms for the scientific community. At its inception in 1994, NCGR's mandate was to develop the Genome Sequence Data Base (GSDB), the first publicly accessible, relational database of human genome sequences from Los Alamos National Laboratory. NCGR has continued to design and maintain publically accessible genomic information resources, such as TAIR and LIS, as well as novel bioinformatic tools, such as Gene-X Lite, ISYS, and XGI, used at research institutions worldwide. Software engineers and developers at NCGR are experienced at creating bioinformatics platforms, incorporating automated annotation and visualization tools, for genome mapping and pathway analysis based on data obtained from high-throughput biotechnologies.
