Faculty of Science and Technology
Deakin University
The main rationale that Bioinformatics-based research has fascinated a great deal of attention in both information technology, mathematics and another way biological science and other areas in the recent years is due to the wide availability of enormous amounts of public and private biological data and the great majority need for revolving biological data into useful information and knowledge. Understanding their correlation, structure, and pattern are most important tasks for Bioinformatics. These gained information and knowledge can be used for applications ranging from drug discovery, genome analysis and biological control.
Bioinformatics Research Group is the combination of several scientific disciplines including biology, computer science, and mathematics. It involves using computer technologies and statistical methods to manage and analyse a huge volume of biological data, for example DNA, RNA and protein sequences, protein structures, gene expression profiles, protein interactions and other non-genomic biological data. Specifically, bioinformatics incorporates the development of databases to store and retrieve biological data, of algorithms and statistics to analyse and determine relationships between biological data, and of statistical tools to identify, interpret, and mine data sets.
We support high quality research and teaching program (such as honours, Master by Research and PhD) in Bioinformatics area. We keep good relationships with international institutes and industries.
Contact:
Director of Bioinformatics Group
Associate Professor Phoebe Chen
Email: phoebe.chen@deakin.edu.au
http://www.deakin.edu.au/~phoebe/BioinformaticsGroup/
