About Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is broadly defined as the use of computers to analyze biological data. Bioinformatics research generally focuses on extracting knowledge from large datasets, such as genome sequences, profiling experiments, or population statistics. It is related to and partially overlaps with biocomputing, biostatistics, and mathematical biology. Genomic and proteomic tools are producing large-amounts of high dimensionality data, and to obtain useful knowledge from this data generally requires a multivariate statistical analysis, usually performed by applying machine learning methods, data mining and computer modeling.

About UNLV Bioinformatics

UNLV Bioinformatics Core personnel consist of Dr. Jeffrey Shen and Dr. Christian Ross.

Our computing resources consist of a 2.8GHz Quad-Opteron workstation running Fedora Linux, and access to the Itanium-2 Cluster, SGI Onyx and Sun Enterprise Cluster at the NSCEE.

The website is maintained by and comments should be directed to Chris Ross.