Biology centers

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Some biology standard related institutions

ACRONYM

TITLE

OFFICER

INTERNET

CODATA

Committee on Data for Science and Technology

J.Rumble, NIST (pres.)

http://www.codata.org

GBIF

Global Biodiversity Information Facility

J.L. Edwards (Exec. Secr.),
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http://www.gbif.org

ICSU

Int.Council for Science

T. Rosswall (ex. dir.)

http://www.icsu.org

ISCB

Int. Society for Computational Biology

P.E. Bourne (pres.)

http://www.iscb.org

IUBGasigurari auto

Inter-Union Bioinformatics Group

J. Garnier, Paris; NIH (chair)

http://md.chem.rug.nl/
  ~berends/IUBG/

IUBMB

Int. Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

B.F.C. Clark (pres.)
J.H. Weil (secr.gen.)

http://www.iubmb.org

IUCr

Int. Union of Crystallography

H. Schenk (pres.)
M.H. Dacombe (ex.secr.)

http://www.iucr.ac.uk

IUPAB

Int. Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics

J. Garnier (pres.)
F. Parak (secr.gen.)

http://www.iupab.org

IUPAC

Int. Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

P. Steyn (pres.)
J.W. Jost (ex.dir.)

http://www.iupac.org

IUPAP

Int. Union of Pure and Applied Physics

B. Richter (pres.)
R. Turlay (secr.gen.)

http://www.iupap.org

JCBN (with NC-IUBMB)

Joint Com. on Biological Nomenclature (with Nomenclature Committee of IUBMB)

R.Cammack (chair)
S. Boyce (secr.)

http://www.iubmb.org/
  nomenclature

UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation

Matsuura (dir. gen.)

http://www.unesco.org

WIPO

World Intellectual Property Organization

K. Idris (dir. gen.)

http://www.wipo.int

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