The Bielefeld University Bioinformatics Server (BiBiServ) supports internet-based collaborative research and education in bioinformatics. It was established in 1996 and currently provides over 20 software tools, together with a repository of educational material.

BioDOM is a JAVA library for converting native non-XML output from various bioinformatics tools to XML formats that can be validated against XML schemas.

BREW is a meeting organized by European PhD programs in bioinformatics.

Starting in 1992, Bielefeld has been involved in curriculum development in bioinformatics.

Bielefeld University is one of five major bioinformatics sites supported by DFG.

The German Conference on Bioinformatics is a medium size annual conference with a long tradition.

The International NRW Graduate School in Bioinformatics and Genome Research was established at Bielefeld University by a grant from the ministry of science and research (MWF) NRW (North-Rhine-Westfalia).

The graduate program "Bioinformatics" exists since October 1st, 2000. It is shared between the Faculties of Mathematics , Biology and the Faculty of Technology.

The HOBIT initiative is dedicated to form the core of a network linking bioinformatic centres together. It shall be understood as an initial organisational and technological platform for interconnection of bioinformatics activities. The aim of the network is to concatenate applications and resources in a uniform way so providing an efficient communication tier between for bioinformatics resource access.

The Bioinformatics Summer School (BISS) was created in 2000 and held three times: in Bielefeld, Göttingen and Tübingen.