The BRC has also taken a leadership role in developing Bioinformatics programs in collaboration with the developers of the North Carolina Research Campus, a billion-dollar, 350-acre research park that will be home to the research programs of a large number of private biotechnology companies as well as university and medical research programs. The BRC will develop a Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics at the North Carolina Research Campus at Kannapolis, eventually hiring several faculty with research interests at both locations. This will be a research, educational and service Center with a focus on the development of novel analytical methods for knowledge discovery in large biological datasets. Research at the Center will enable basic and applied researchers to ask and answer complex questions in molecular and population biology, to manage and navigate the vast data sets that are generated by modern molecular biology methods, and to translate the results into practical benefits through understanding of the interacting effects of health, nutrition, development, and behavior.