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Bioinformatics in Animal, Agricultural and Life Sciences
Bioinformatics in Animal, Agricultural and Life Sciences
The discipline of Bioinformatics addresses the need to manage and interpret the data that is being massively generated by genomic and proteomic research. This discipline represents the convergence of biology, computer and information technology sciences, and encompasses analysis and interpretation of biomolecular data, modeling of biological phenomena, and development of algorithms and statistical approaches. Nowadays, everything can and will be measured at a global scale, stored and archived in databases, disseminated through cable or wireless conduits, and analyzed. This includes information on genomes, biomolecules, biomolecular circuitry, and biological processes at the molecular, cellular, individual and population levels. Our world expects giant pay-offs from the analysis of multi-dimensional data structures, including proactive control and clear understanding of chemical, biological and cosmological processes. The Department of Animal Sciences and College of ACES have a wide-encompassing mission that relates to agriculture, food, and environment, and is driven mainly by a human-community dimension. This involves addressing important issues in biology. Within this framework, bioinformatics plays an important role in the management and adequate exploitation of microbial, plant and animal genomic resources.
Researchers in the animal, microbial, and plant sciences have contributed to developments in bioinformatics, mostly through advances in genetics, genomics, proteomics, population biology, ecology and evolution. The Department of Animal Sciences have resident expertise and support a bioinformatics curriculum that stresses its underlying mission.