Which research center is west of a coastal seaport city in Canada?
UBiC UBiC, the UBC Bioinformatics Centre (disambiguation: not to be confused with the University of Brighton International College, or indeed http://www.ubicsystem.com/) was a research centre founded by Francis Ouellette. It was located at the University of British Columbia, in the University of British Columbia west of Vancouver, BC Canada, UBiC focused on bioinformatics research, training, and support. Some of the faculty formerly part of UBiC are now part of the Centre for High-Throughput Biology (CHiBi).
Mineral Exploration Research Centre The Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC) is a semi-autonomous research centre associated with the Harquail School of Earth Sciences at Laurentian University in Sudbury Ontario, Canada, and one of the largest mineral exploration research-teaching clusters in the world. MERC is housed in the Willett Green Miller Mineral and Mining Research Centre on the Laurentian University campus, together with the Ontario Geological Survey, Ontario Geoscience Laboratories, John B. Gammon Mines Library, the administrative offices of the Minerals and Mining Division of the Ontari Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, MIRARCo, and Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation.