Kyoto University
21st Century COE Program
"Knowledge Information Infrastructure for Genome Science"
A
grand challenge in the genome science of the
21st century is to computationally predict systemic
functional behaviors of the cell, the organism,
and the ecosystem from genomic and molecular
information, especially for the purpose of medical,
industrial, and other practical applications.
This will require new bioinformatics, not simply
for screening large-scale data, but rather for
reconstructing the system and computing its interactions
with the environment. The joint venture between
the Bioinformatics Center and the School of Pharmaceutical
Sciences in Kyoto University aims at establishing
the knowledge information infrastructure for
the 21st century genome science, both in terms
of the computerized resource and the human resource.
A new education/training program is being introduced,
integrating traditional bioinformatics with physics
and chemistry and with medical and pharmaceutical
sciences. |
