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Welcome
Bioinformatics is an emerging field of science that is concerned with
the management, analysis and visualization of the flood of data being
generated in molecular and cellular biology, genomics and other areas of
biology and biomedicine. Center for Integrated Bioinformatics focuses on a
system approach to bioinformatics in which information at the gene, protein,
cell, tissue, organ, and system level is integrated and interpreted for
early detection, accurate diagnosis, and effective treatment of complex
diseases such as cancer. The program offers bioinformatics education at both
undergraduate and graduate levels and provides advanced bioinformatics
training programs for The Greater Philadelphia Bioinformatics Alliance. The
overall objective of the educational program is to train students in system
approaches for the development of useful computational models of living
systems and novel enabling informatics technologies in life sciences. A
broad, educational impact of the Center for Integrated Bioinformatics
educational program is to strengthen the system biology and bioinformatics
background of life sciences, engineering and computer science students. The
program facilitates bioinformatics research in a wide range of topics,
including the molecular characterization of tissue heterogeneity, molecular
pathways and cellular networks, and the informatics of cultured cells.
Tissue heterogeneity is an important property of cancer. Medical,
histological, and molecular information must be integrated to address the
issues of early detection, accurate diagnosis, and individualized treatment.
Integration of information is also the key ingredient in the future advances
in the treatment of infectious diseases. |
