Formerly known as the Nitrogen Fixation Research Center (Centro de Investigación sobre Fijación de Nitrógeno, CIFN-UNAM) for 23 years, the Center for Genomic Sciences (Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, CCG-UNAM) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) was established in November 2004, and for the last two years we have accomplished important achievements in genomics research as well as in education.
The UNAM's Bioinformatics National Node, which belongs to the EMBnet community, is part of the Program of Computational Genomics of the CCG. This Program, does research on integrative approaches to the study of regulation of gene expression at the level of transcription initiation in E.coli, and also is in charge of the bioinformatics of a genome project called "Development of the Genomic Science in Mexico: The Rhizobium etli genome as a model system".
