The UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) does seem to share Peter Campbell's view that interdisciplinary research teams are a good way to drive bioinformatics

forward (Nature 401, 321; 1999). Indeed, over the past few years, it has supported just this kind of research through a joint initiative with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research

Council. The reviewing panel has typically assigned high weightings to projects that represent collaborations between biology and computer-science departments.

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