Educational and Research focus

The main focus of this Bioinformatics track will be on Data Analysis and Modeling, which represents the unique expertise of the different research groups of Leiden University and the Delft University of Technology participating in this Bioinformatics track. This expertise is used to address issues like data capturing, data warehousing and data mining that have become major issues for biotechnologists and biological scientists due to sudden growth in quantitative data in biology. On the other hand, bioinformatics heavily contributes to the identification of new informatics principles and the development of new informatics tools. Bioinformatics offers a new synthetic approach for formulating hypothesis and solving problems in biology and biochemistry versus the classical reductionistic approach.