Singapore - May 18, 2005 -On Thursday, May 19, at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo in Boston, Dr. Christopher Hogue, principal investigator of The Blueprint Initiative, will describe the organization’s efforts to enable drug discovery and systems biology research through the development of bioinformatics databases and software tools. The talk will offer attendees insights on how to leverage proprietary and publicly available data to identify new leads, IT infrastructure development and management, and how databases are bridging the genomics, proteomics, metabolic, chemical, and informatics communities.