About the:

The Arkansas Bioinformatics Consortium (AR-BIC)

Mission:

The Arkansas Bioinformatics Consortium (AR-BIC) is a virtual Arkansas-centric bioinformatics community aimed at developing, leveraging and enhancing state-wide collaboration, thus forming a stable environment available to support the AR-wide research, education, training and entrepreneurial/industrial activities in life sciences-related computing. AR-BIC activities are within the general area of life sciences computing in AR. The goals of AR-BIC are to (1) strengthen Arkansas' ability to compete at national and international levels for research funding, (2) enable and facilitate collaboration in research where synergy is identified, (3) enhance education, training and university curricula, and (4) expand AR economic growth and job opportunities. AR-BIC is founded on the belief that we can be more than the sum of our parts, and that in our unity, we can draw strength from our diversity. Through synergy, a true critical mass of capability can be assembled to take on large challenges in public health.

2016 AR-BIC Steering Committee:

• Arkansas State University (ASU): Andy Sustich and Xuizhen Huang
• Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA): Jerry Adams, Art Norris, Julie LaRue, Roger Buchanan,
  and Bryan Barnhouse
• National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR): Weida Tong, Shraddha Thakkar, Roger Perkins, Huixiao Hong and Wenming Xiao
• University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (UAF): Andy Pereira and Jim Rankin
• University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR): Mary Yang, Paula Casey and Zulma Toro
• University of Arkansas Medical Sciences (UAMS): Charlotte Hobbs, Laura Hutchins, Don Johann, Fred Prior and Larry Cornett
• University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB): Karl Walker and Mary Benjamin