TITLE:

BIOINFORMATICS: MERGING COMPUTER AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (No. 101)

DATE:

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

TIME:

3:30 PM

LOCATION:

GMCS 214

SPEAKER:

Rob Edwards, Department of Biology and CSRC, SDSU

ABSTRACT:

The computer science revolution has overtaken the natural sciences,
and nowhere is this more apparent than in Biology. The amount of
biological data that is being generated is increasing at an
exponential rate, and biologists are struggling to deal with all this
new data. The biological sciences offer untapped resources for
computer scientists to make a difference with bioinformatics.
Bioinformatics is applying computer science skills to biology.
Bioinformatics is a relatively new area, but critically important for
biotechnology companies, pharmaceutical companies, and academics.
Bioinformatics is one of the fastest growing computational research
areas at the moment. The talk will focus on using computer science to
understand DNA sequences from bacteria, the human genome, and the
environment. Dr. Edwards is a researcher with the Fellowship for the
Interpretation of Genomes and Argonne National Labs, both in Chicago,
IL, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology
at SDSU. His research focuses on using bioinformatics to understand
genome sequences and annotate genomes and metagenomes. Dr Edwards has
applied genomics to many different microbes including those
associated with food-poisoning and those that may be potential
bioweapons, to environmental sequences from mines and the oceans.

HOST:

Peter Salamon

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