"The BioAccelerator is one piece of a broader effort by Virginia to secure a foothold in biotech, which in the Washington region has long been anchored in Maryland. Economic development officials hope to leverage Northern Virginia's abundance of IT companies to create a breeding ground for bioinformatics startups. Frost & Sullivan estimates bioinformatics sales will exceed $2 billion worldwide this year. "

Bioinformatics rocks. Science geeks + Computer geeks = bleeding edge technology