VectorBase is an NIAID Bioinformatics Resource Center for Invertebrate Vectors of Human Pathogens. It is a centralized portal housing the genomic information for disease carrying agents, such as Anopheles gambiae, the principle vector for malaria which afflicts nearly 500 million people world-wide. We partner with Ensembl, the Institute for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Harvard, and Imperial College London to provide the ability to search, browse, visualize, and annotate hosted genetic data through an array of popular web-tools such as BLAST and the Ensemble Gene Browser housed and supported at Notre Dame. As a member Bioinformatics Resource Center (BRC), VectorBase also participates in linking housed data to the Pathogen Portal in an ongoing effort to centralize NIAID efforts in providing bioinformaticians with the latest data useful in combating deadly disease.