Stiftungsprofessur: Wissensmanagement in der Bioinformatik

The promise of Bioinformatics is to bridge the gap between genome research and medicine. It is the goal of the Berlin Centre for Genome Based Bioinformatics (BCB) to realize this vision. The cooperating groups of BCB will attack the major problems in the informational synthesis of genome data:<br>
* genomic annotation and knowledge management, <br>
* prediction of structure and function of gene products, <br>
* cellular and disease modelling. <br>
Scientific efforts will be closely integrated with and complemented by educational efforts specifically promoting short-term education of bioinformatics specialists through a 1.5 year curriculum at Technische Fachhochschule Berlin (TFH), and a MSc course in bioinformatics at Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) in close collaboration with Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (HUB). The competence centre comprises three new professorships and seven new junior research groups, which will be closely integrated into already existing genomics and bioinformatics activities at the Berlin universities FU, HU, and the institutes MDC, MPI-MG, and ZIB.