The following institutes are involved in this collaborative project, either with the writing of text book, or as evaluation centers for the practical exercises, or in the CD-ROM and web site design:

• University of Manchester (United Kingdom)
• Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (Switzerland)
• University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
• University of the Western Cape (South Africa)
• European Bioinformatics Institute (United Kingdom)
• Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (Portugal)
• University of Bruxelles (Belgium)
• Canada Institute for Marine Biosciences (Canada)
• Research Institute for Genetic engineering and Biotechnology (Turkey)
• Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (The Netherlands)