Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB)
A key outcome of the CMB training group has been establishment of the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB), which enrolled its first students in Spring 2000.  Nearly sixty PhD students currently are enrolled in the BCB program, making it one of the largest PhD-granting programs in computational biology nationwide.  Since the program's inception, CMB faculty have developed and taught 20 new interdisciplinary courses – from bridge courses designed to bring students up to speed in disciplines outside their areas of expertise, to upper level graduate courses that explore cutting edge research at the interface of the biological and computational sciences.  Students are selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants.  The IGERT training grant sponsors many Bioinformatics and Computational Biology students, but IGERT traineeships are not limited to students within the BCB programs.

Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics
Iowa State institutionalized the Computational Molecular Biology (CMB) training group by creating the Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics.  The Baker Center promotes research in computational biology by supporting workshops, seminars and short-term research exchanges.  The Center also provides hardware and software for student research and administers staff to support these resources, including a PhD-level bioinformaticist and a half-time systems analyst.

Center for Integrated Animal Genomics (CIAG)
Advances in genome sequencing and molecular genetics now enable scientists to explore complex biological problems using an integrated systems-wide genomics approach.  The Center for Integrated Animal Genomics at Iowa State University is dedicated to developing state of the art techniques in computational, molecular and cell biology to improve animal and human health.  CIAG, one of the Presidential initiatives at ISU, builds on the strengths of world-class programs in animal and microbial genetics, bioinformatics, biotechnology and the life sciences.

Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning and Discovery (CCILD)
The Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning and Discovery (CCILD) is devoted to the development of sophisticated distributed informatics infrastructure, databases, knowledge bases, ontologies and sophisticated data mining algorithms and software to support integrative collaborative research in bioinformatics and computational and systems biology.  Collaborative research projects involve faculty of the CCILD, the Center for Integrated Animal Genomics (CIAG), the Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics and the Computational Molecular Biology (CMB) training group.  Current research projects focus on information integration, discovery of macromolecular sequence-structure-function relationships and discovery of biomolecular signaling pathways.  These projects offer a broad range of research-based training opportunities for IGERT trainees.