Bioinformatics at KBC
Bioinformatics includes any use of computers to handle biological data. Biological data comprise biological information that can be stored in the genetic code, experimental results, patient statistics, and/or scientific literature. Research in bioinformatics is highly interdisciplinary, using techniques and concepts from informatics, statistics, mathematics, chemistry (chemometrics), biochemistry, physics, and linguistics. Generally, it includes method development for storage, retrieval, and analysis of biological data.
Finding biologically relevant information out of biological data requires sophisticated data analysis methods. The bioinformatics research at Karolinska Biomics Center (KBC) mainly includes application, conformation, and development of such methods, primarily for proteomic mass spectrometry data. This field of research is growing with the increase of the capacity of computers and analytical techniques, generating an increasing amount of data.
