Nile University (NU) is a not-for-profit institution of higher learning. The University was established in Egypt in July 2006 by the Egyptian Foundation for Technological Education Development (EFTED). The Egyptian Foundation for Technological Education (EFTED) is a not-for-profit organization, dedicated to improving technology-related education . NU is a research university, offering graduate and undergraduate studies in Engineering, Technology, Management and Management of Technology (MOT). NU's emphasis in research and development (R&D) activities is in the area of Communications and Information Technology. Nile University's researchers are operating in 6 research centers focusing on areas of critical importance : NU is also a strategic partner of the recently established Egypt-IBM Nanotechnology Research Center. Each research center has been equipped with the most modern infrastructure benchmarked against international research institutions worldwide. These state-of-the-art research facilities are open to national universities free of charge as was the case with the Bioinformatics portal.