The biT Fellowships for Excellence, a CIHR Strategic Training Program Grant in Bioinformatics, has been elaborated by Dr. Gertraud Burger, Leader of Bioinformatics programs at Université de Montréal, and was supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research from 2003 to 2009. The purpose of this training initiative was to promote excellence in an emerging field of research.

This program would have not been possible without the cooperation of the following co-investigators:

• Nadia El-Mabrouk :: Computer Science and Operational Research (Université de Montréal)
• Andrew Grant :: Diagnostics (Université de Sherbrooke)
• Pierre Legendre :: Biology (Université de Montréal)
• François Major :: Computer Science and Operational Research (Université de Montréal)
• Hervé Philippe :: Biochemistry (Université de Montréal)
• Daniel Sinnett :: Pediatrics (Université de Montréal)