Diving Into Bioinformatics Research

The creative work of mathematicians and computer scientists is everywhere around us. Whether it is designing new more efficient cars or faster planes, sending people into space or predicting the weather, developing new medication or new treatment for patients, preserving the environment or understanding our economy and the financial markets, mathematicians and computer scientists are working hand in hand with engineers, scientists, economists to improve our live and our society.

Below is a description of the First Year Research Group in Bioinformatics. You can enter this group next Fall, and start doing real research. We invite you to participate which gives you an opportunity to actively do research side by side with a faculty member. There will be no more than 4 students in one research group.

Research Group 1: Bioinformatics
The recent success of the Human Genome Project has demonstrated the importance of Bioinformatics, which is the study and design of computer algorithms to model and to solve biological and medical problems. "Intelligent" algorithms search for disease genes, while efficient pattern recognition algorithms detect and classify antibody responses to segments of cancer or HIV gene sequences. The explosion of biological data due to storage of genome sequences has posed new challenges to computer scientists: the design of Very Large Data Base systems and of efficient data mining strategies. You are welcome to join our efforts and explore this new emerging field.
(Instructor: A. Chou)