Bioinformatics is a melding of biology, computer science, informatics and information engineering into a single discipline that enables new discoveries in biology and related fields. The digital library of biosciences knowledge has grown well beyond bounds that people can digest, where scientific advances require understanding and integration of this library with computational expertise. Many questions in biology, medicine, and agriculture today can best or only be answered using extensive computing skills and resources.

The CGB Bioinformatics group addresses several aspects of this field: development and implementation of tools and services for efficient access and management of biology databases and data sets; analysis and interpretation of biosequences, genomes and related data; and development of new algorithms and statistics for large biodata sets. We encourage collaboration with and education of scientists for bioinformatics areas relevant to their research.

To achieve goals for long-term growth in bioinformatics, our group will (i) undertake independent research, (ii) collaborate on projects with IUB faculty, Indiana state and world-wide groups, (iii) consult and train students and faculty in bioinformatics methods, and (iv) develop and provide access usable bioinformatics tools and data.

Our bioinformaticians are well versed in the range of bioinformatics methods, having several years experience in developing and implementing use of bioinformatics tools and databases, and are innovative in approaches to genome-scale computing. We have on-going collaborations locally and world-wide, and seek to expand this with other interested researchers. Our facilities include up-to-date databanks at the Terabyte-level, multiprocessing and distributed computing resources. We provide access to a complete range of usable bioinformatics software tools, for needs ranging from sequence assembly, sequence databank searching, cDNA and EST analyses, phylogenetics and comparative analyses, gene expression / microarray database and analysis. We specialize in areas of genome data analysis and management including development of new data access and distribution tools, new algorithms and genome mining tools, new implementations of tool suites for thorough and automated analyses, and genome data integration for public use.

For more information about the Bioinformatics group, please contact the Bioinformatics Director.

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