Computational Biology

As the technology continues to improve and the costs to drop, making sense of the overload of information pouring out of genome studies will increasingly depend on close collaborations between genome scientists and those with the quantitative skills needed to distill meaning out of mass quantities of data.

To that end, computational biologists at the IGSP are focusing on solutions for analyzing data from genome-wide studies, as well as gene expression and proteomic data. IGSP investigators are developing the computational, statistical and bioinformatic tools required to find meaningful patterns in DNA sequence. IGSP collaborations are also providing quantitative insights into network dynamics, a fundamental problem in systems biology. Many of the software tools our researchers have developed are made freely available to other scientists around the globe.