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Master's Degree Programme in Bioinformatics University of Tampere and University of Turku |
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About Bioinformatics
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Bioinformatics applies methods of computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics, and statistics to biological data, such as genome DNA sequences, or protein structures. Bioinformaticians usually work as experts within biomedical or pharmaceutical R&D. With the current high-throughput methods in biological and medical research, it is essential to process the data by computer methods so that the data can be transformed into information, knowledge and understanding. For instance, the data can be entered into user-friendly databases, or visualized into easily understandable but complex images. Developing and maintaining databases of biological data or biological visualization expert tasks are examples of jobs for a bioinformatician. Sometimes old data can be analyzed in new ways so that new insights can be obtained, or new experiments be suggested to confirm the theoretical analysis. For example, a novel method to predict genes may suggest previously unknown genes in the human genome. Developing such new methods is yet another part of bioinformatics. The Wikipedia article on bioinformatics describes further subtopics within this highly dynamic field. There are many bioinformatics research groups in Finnish universities. CSC - the Finnish IT Center for Science maintains an extensive link page of Bioinformatics in Finland. The participating institutes have a strong bioinformatic research background, too. The IBT Bioinformatics group at Tampere and the Salakoski group in Turku. University of Helsinki and Helsinki University of Technology offer jointly another alternative to learn bioinformatics in Finland: Master's Degree Programme in Bioinformatics (MBI). |