CNR-Bioinformatics

The CNR-Bioinformatics project is made up of researchers from various CNR departments, in order to achieve specific research in the field of Bioinformatics.

Recent results from sequencing projects of the genome of different species have laid the foundations for the study of modern industrial applications derived from genomics and proteomics. In this contest, the CNR-Bioinformatics project will support research in public health, in Universities, in public sector research and industries, for the development of new strategies for the analysis of genetic data in the biomedical and biotechnological fields.

The aim of the Bioinformatics project is to establish a network of specific skills within CNR departments able to adequately respond to bioinformatics needs generated by CNR's projects and to constitute a pool of expertise to better participate in national and international projects.

This project will support the development of new approaches to analysis and management of genomic and proteomic data in biomedical, biotechnological, agro-industrial molecular design fields. This project aims to conduct coordinated research activities, aid technological transfer and to run training programmes, all of which will contribute to the development of new and advanced bioinformatics tools that will be made available to the entire national and international scientific community.

In particular, activities will be carried out to develop new bioinformatics methodologies that will find immediate application in projects of national interest in the emerging areas of System Biology, in the study of complex systems, of information technology and Grid computing applied to biology and medicine.