Bioinformatics

Visualization is a field of increasing relevance in molecular life science and its applications for example within medicine and environmental science. Advanced algorithms and methods from machine learning and data analysis are used to process and analyze large complex data sets. Data may come from measurements such as sequencing of DNA or RNA or measurements of protein abundance and activity. Molecular biology data are typically analyzed together with more high-level information for example about disease, response to treatment, or other parameters. Within bioinformatics we develop and apply methods for processing analyzing and presenting molecular biology data. Examples of applications are within personalized medicine prediction of response to treatment, within ecology analysis of molecular data reflecting species abundance in an environmental sample.

Programme profile
Bioinformatics is a field where one develops and use programs and databases to represent, store and and analyze molecular biology data. This entails development of algorithms and use of techniques from for example machine learning, pattern recognition, statistics and visualization. Within bioinformatics one develops methods, tools and databases that can be used in molecular biology and biomedical projects. Using bioinformatics one can also address biological and medical research questions and to an increasing extent projects within life science are driven by computational approaches such as bioinformatics and systems biology.