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{{Infobox Software|name=BOND|developer=Christopher Hogue et al., Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai. Commercial rights: Unleashed Informatics|latest_release_version=BIND 4.0, SMIDsuite|genre=Bioinformatics tool|license=Open Access|website=[http://bond.unleashedinformatics.com/index.jsp?pg=0]}}
The Blueprint Initiative started as a research program in the lab of Dr. Christopher Hogue at the [[Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute]] at [[Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto)|Mount Sinai Hospital]] in [[Toronto]]. On [[December 14]] [[2005]] Unleashed Informatics Limited acquired the commercial rights to The Blueprint Initiative [[intellectual property]]. This included rights to the protein interaction database BIND, the small molecule interaction database SMID, as well as the data warehouse SeqHound. Unleashed Informatics is a data management service provider and is overseeing the management and curation of The Blueprint Initiative under the guidance of Dr. Hogue.<ref>[http://www.blueprint.org Blueprint.org]</ref>
==Construction==
BOND integrates the original Blueprint Initiative databases as well as other databases, such as [[Genbank]], combined with many tools required to analyze these data. Annotation links for sequences, including taxon identifiers, redundant sequences, [[Gene Ontology]] descriptions, [[Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man]] identifiers, [[conserved domains]], data base cross-references, LocusLink Identifiers and complete genomes are also available. Bond facilitates cross-database queries and is an [[open access]] resource which integrates interaction and sequence data. <ref name= "BOND">[http://bond.unleashedinformatics.com BOND at Unleashed Informatics]</ref>
==Small Molecule Interaction Database (SMID)==
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