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Asian nations have a huge potential in mining the weatlth of biological resource and biological information. 
 
There are many attempts to establish fruitful international collaboration among Asian nations and beyond. 
VBIO is just another attempt. 
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We proposed VBIO should be practical rather than political and idealistic. 
Unlike Europe and US, the collaborative network among Asian organizations are not productive nor strong (as of 2005). 
 
In the future, Asian nations will lead the biotechnology of the world. 
We need to lay stepping stones for such an important and exciting time powered by our young men and women. 
 
As some of you have experienced already, even in science, there are discrimination and stereotypes. Due to the fact that we do not use English as our mother tongue, there is much penalty for Asian researchers publishing there excellent rearch work. Obviously, it will produce a world where certain cultural, language, and national groups will determine the direction of big science projects. We want open and sharing science. 
 
We want to change the research environment more friendly to less priviliged people in the world. 
Many of you who read this page must have paid a lot of money and time in educating yourselves in foreign nations in foreign cultures.Yet, you may still observe the same huddles you had among your own people in your own countries. 
 
With limited resource in Asian science community, we need to interconnect in the spirit of bioinformatics that is perhaps the most open and free community in biology in terms of open source, free programs, and free databases. 
 
We need to raise our voice and opinion to our governments and people to tell how important biological heritage, biological information and biological future of Asia are. 
 
In conclusion, VBIO wants to give practical and unpolitical roadmap and hope to bioinformatists in Asia and beyond in the quickiest, cheapest and easiest possible ways for constructing an [[openfree]] bio-community. 

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