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Science is not only about doing science, it is also about enabling scientists to do science. The reproducibility of experiments in a biological laboratory would (and should) become rather questionable if the quality of products and materials would be less than impeccable – or not available because someone forgot to order them in time – or if technical assistants would not take care of and/or did not know how to handle equipment. Doing experiments with Drosophila could get tedious if the fly rooms could not be kept at the correct temperature, and the knock-out mice would be knocked out for sure if people from the animal facility would not take proper care of them. And who dares to imagine a CIG where there is no IT support if the computer makes “Beep” – and nothing else but that – or wants to contemplate over a scenario without administrative assistants within the walls of the institute? And surely, the Center for Genomics would be far less Integrative if people from the genotyping, phenotyping and sequencing facilities would not guarantee the highest experimental standards. Working together in the field of experimental and/or computational biology allows scientists to create success in a way that would be difficult, if not impossible, as compared to working alone. Indeed: “If you want to go fast, walk alone. If you want to go far, walk together”. As such, it comes hardly as a surprise to state that the strength of the CIG, like every other research institute, comes from team work among its members. All of them.