CSIRO Bioinformatics is an innovator in algorithm development and data mining for drug discovery and diagnosis.
CSIRO Bioinformatics is a wholly owned subsidiary of CSIRO, the Australian federal government research agency. CSIRO Bioinformatics has statisticians and software engineers with extensive data mining experience, in areas as diverse as remote sensing, insurance and medical instrumentation.
CSIRO Bioinformatics aims to provide statistical consulting and specialised software development services to the global biotechnology industry and to collaborate with leading international research groups.
Bioinformatics is the application of information technology, statistics and mathematics to biological problems involving large volumes of data with complex interrelationships. It provides the foundation for much modern biomedicine and biotechnology.
The main application for bioinformatics is in the acquisition, management and interpretation of the huge data resources arising from modern genomics - the study of genes and their actions.
The volume of biological data holdings doubles every 14 months so, without access to effective informatics, genetic researchers will drown in the volumes of data they must deal with. Bioinformatics is a vital requirement for any organisation wishing to transform large scale genome data holdings into valuable information products.
Our major research interests are in functional genomics and proteomics. Functional genomics is the analysis of the joint action of many genes, as revealed by high throughput assays such as microarrays. Proteomics is concerned with the characterisation of the proteome - the complement of proteins in the organism.
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