Computational Biology

Computational biology and systems biology are fast-growing disciplines focused on modelling and analyzing biological data using advanced computing techniques. Until recently the emphasis in bioinformatics was on the large genome and protein databases using techniques from the fields of computers science and statistics. Computational biology (Bioinformatics) is moving from molecular biology towards higher levels of organization: regulatory networks, metabolic pathways, cells, organs, organisms and populations of organisms. As a result, advanced modelling, scientific visualization, multivariate data analysis and other computational techniques are becoming increasingly relevant in computational biology and related fields of research such a biomedicine and systems biology. There is currently an urgent need for trained computational biologists and bioinformaticians in industries, biotechnogical and pharmacological companies, universities and research institutes.