Seminar Announcement

	Seminar Announcement IEEE Computer Society

Abstract

Bioinformatics, or computational molecular biology, is an interdisciplinary area born from the necessity to deal with the exponential growth of all types of biological (molecular) data: to collect, organise, store, transfer and analyse. It forms a synergy between the biological, physical and information sciences, in particular molecular biology, biotechnology, information technology and computer science. From an IT/CS perspective, Bioinformatics aims to devise new computational methods and algorithms as well as propose and implement effective information systems to process biological data. From a biological perspective, Bioinformatics is now recognised as integral to understanding biological, functional and evolutionary significance of the molecular data. In this talk, I will provide an overview of the Bioinformatics area and describe some of my bioinformatics research.