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| Bioinformatics in Arkansas |
| Congratulations Graduates |
Michael and Kana Bauer accept Michael's Masters in Bioinformatics Saturday, May 17, 2008. |
| Opportunites in the Natural State |
Arkansans use bioinformatics every day, and enjoy a joint UALR/UAMS Ph.D. granting graduate program, the National Center for Toxicological Research, acitve, local, bioscience venture funds, and many excellent research programs at Univerisities across the state. Not only are we creating workers for highly desirable businesses, we are also contributing to both basic science and clinical applications.
This website covers academics and contacts for the program, resources for software development, bioinformatics tutorials, links to lectures from premier international researchers, and hints for job hunting. |
| bioinformatics.ualr.edu |
This website is maintained by the MidSouth Bioinformatics Center, and links statewide web resources. More importantly, it also links statewide human resources. As a regional services center, fostering collaboration is an important part of the mission.
The MBC offers access to both computational and consulting resources, and occasionally gives away very nice bioinformatics workstations or "found" PC clusters. The MBC also sponsors 1-5 day workshops on scripting with perl and R, and other important development technologies, gearing examples towards life sciences. |
| What is bioinformatics? |
Bioinformaticians research, develop, and apply computational tools and approaches for analyzing, and thus expanding, the use of biological, medical, behavioral, and health data.
- As a discipline that builds upon the fields of computer and information science, bioinformatics relies heavily upon strategies to acquire, store, organize, archive, analyze, and visualize data.
- As a discipline that builds upon computational biology, bioinformatics encompasses the development and application of data-analytical and theoretical methods, mathematical modeling and computational simulation techniques to the study of biological, behavioral, and social systems.
- As a discipline that builds upon the life, health, and medical sciences, bioinformatics supports medical informatics; gene mapping in pedigrees and population studies; functional-, structural-, and pharmaco-genomics; proteomics, and dozens of other evolving "-omics."
- As a discipline that builds upon the basic sciences, bioinformatics depends on a strong foundation of chemistry, biochemistry, biophysics, biology, genetics, and molecular biology which allows interpretation of biological data in a meaningful context.
- As a discipline whose core is mathematics and statistics, bioinformatics applies these fields in ways that provide insight to make the vast, diverse, and complex life sciences data more understandable and useful, to uncover new biological insights, and to provide new perspectives to discern unifying principles.
In short, bioinformaticians (or bioinformaticists) bring a multidisciplinary perspective to many of the critical problems facing the health-science profession today.
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