Hello I would like to get a sense on how other small companies / organizations build their IT and bioinformatics groups. Do you have one large group or two groups that fall under R&D? One of the issues that we are having is when the bioinformatics group build some prototype they would like to pass the application(s) on to IT. This way they are free to work on new projects. Currently, this is not happening. So is it simply a matter of building integrated teams (need support from the people above)? cheers steve _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail