Box 2 The Nutrigenomics Organisation acts as a non-exclusive association where partner institutes join on a contractual membership basis

Associated partners

– Receive a full installation of the Nutrigenomics Organisation server (NBX) with a local copy of the nutritional phenotype database and access to the datasharing grid

– Get access to the nutritional phenotype database as research collaboration tool in contrast to the public-domain version providing access to all nutritional intervention studies released into the public domain

– Can access all bioinformatics tools provided by the Nutrigenomics Organisation, either by shared licences or by internal development

– Pay a membership fee for maintenance of the infrastructure and data management, contribute to the progressive development of the nutritional phenotype database