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Facing the biomedical<br />
and data challenges<br />
Reinhard Schneider<br />
Reinhard Schneider, the Head of Bioinformatics Core Facility at LCSB, explains why and<br />
how biology has become a science based on high levels of data integration and on<br />
high-performance computing.<br />
The amount<br />
of data doubles every<br />
eighteen months. And we<br />
now deal with Petabytes<br />
of data<br />
”<br />
“<br />
What is bioinformatics and what is the<br />
Bioinformatics Core Facility responsible<br />
for?<br />
Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that<br />
develops methods and software tools for<br />
understanding biological data. It combines<br />
computer science, statistics, mathematics,<br />
and engineering to study and process biological<br />
data.<br />
The Bioinformatics CoreFacility is a unit of the<br />
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine<br />
(LCSB), an interdisciplinary research center of<br />
the University of Luxembourg, based in Esch-<br />
Belval and which aims to accelerate biomedical<br />
research, by linking systems biology and<br />
medical research, in order to understand the<br />
principal mechanisms of disease pathogenesis<br />
and to develop new diagnostics and therapy<br />
tools on diseases such as Parkinson’s disease.<br />
At the Bioinformatics Core we are responsible<br />
for the efficient data flow between the<br />
experimental groups and the theoretical and<br />
medical oriented groups at the LCSB. We<br />
develop new algorithms in various fields to<br />
help to understand and interpret the data.<br />
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<strong>LG</strong> - Juin 2015
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