Bioinformatics is the study of biology using the tools of computer science.
Bioinformatics enables the study of proteins, genes, and genomes using computer
algorithms and computer databases. According to a more general National Institutes
of Health definition,
bioinformatics is "research, development, or application of computational
tools and approaches for expanding the use of biological, medical, behavioral
or health data, including those to acquire, store, organize, analyze, or visualize
such data." The related discipline of computational biology is "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."
This web site provides an overview of bioinformatics resources at the Kennedy
Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins, as well as links to external bioinformatics
resources.
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Organization/Directors
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Mission statement
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| WelchWeb |
Welch Medical Library Information Service |
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| JHMCIS |
Johns Hopkins Medicine Center for Information Services |
The mission of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Center for Information
Services is to provide high quality support for the elements of the Johns
Hopkins Health System, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
and the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in their mission to provide cost-effective
patient care, develop the caregivers/researchers of the future, and extend
the fields of medical knowledge. To accomplish this, JHMCIS must provide
enabling technologies and effective system solutions and services to the
caregivers, support functions, and financial and administrative staff, thereby
allowing them to focus their energies on fulfilling their respective missions. |
| Division of Biomedical Information Sciences (DBIS) |
Nancy K. Roderer (chair) |
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Resource
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Organization/Directors
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Mission statement
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| Center for Computational
Medicine and Biology |
Biomedical Engineering; Aleksander S. Popel and Raimond L.
Winslow, Directors |
To advance the understanding of integrative function in biological systems,
including human, through development and application of computational models,
and to apply these models to the design of novel therapeutics. |
| Program
in Computational Biology |
Program Directors - Dr. Michael Paulaitis and Dr. George Rose |
The Program in Computational Biology trains scientists and engineers to
apply their analytical and computational skills to what is fast becoming
the most challenging problem in molecular biology: to organize and interpret
the vast amounts of basic data being generated in the field today from genome
sequencing to protein structure determination to the determination of cellular
and intercellular processing networks. |
