| RESEARCH

Knowledge discovery and machine learning play an increasingly important role in biomolecular science, now that micro-array technology reaches maturity and genomes of different organisms are being published with increasing frequency. As a consequence, massive amounts of data are being (and will be) produced that contain important facts about the "Book of Life" of living organisms. These measurements have opened new avenues to discover novel functionalities within cells (e.g. function of genes and gene pathways).

Would you like to know more about the research going on at the Delft University of Technology? Please visit the Bioinformatics research group in Delft.

At Leiden University there are two research groups related to Bioinformatics. The Algorithms research group is working on methods and techniques for algorithm design and analysis, with an emphasis on algorithms and architectures for larger data volumes.

The research group Imaging & Bioinformatics focusses on bio imaging and relation the analysis of image information to other bio-molecular information resources. At present the bio imaging has its emphasis on microscopy modalities, in particular light microscopy. The analysis requires that a large number of images be processed. To overcome the limitations of standard storage formats, innovative approaches for image databases in experimental settings are probed. Current research subjects comprise: 3D Reconstruction & Modeling, Ontologies and their application in the image domain, Gene expression databases and Image analysis.

Bioinformatics students in both Delft and Leiden are participating in interesting (graduation) projects. Read more in our Projects section.