Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology

World-Class Resources, World-Changing Programs

Computation is the vanguard of today’s biomedical research. UMR’s Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology (BICB) program is the vanguard of biomedical computation. We combine the strengths and skills of five internationally renowned partners - University of Minnesota Rochester, Mayo Clinic, IBM, The Hormel Institute, and the University of Minnesota Twin Cities - to create a one-of-a-kind opportunity for research and graduate education at the intersection of quantitative sciences, biology, and medicine.

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News & Announcements

This semester, two hands-on tutorials will be offered by MSI at UMR. These are:
Introduction to Matlab -- November 29 in room 414 Find out more>>
Galaxy Bioinformatics Workbench -- December 14 in room 397 Find out more>>

Congratulations to 2007 BICB trainee Dimitrije Jevremovic, who was recently BICB fellowship chosen to receive for a second year the prestigious IBM Ph.D. Fellowship. The internationally highly competitive award will support Jevremovic's thesis research during 2011-12 on analysis of metabolic pathways in biochemical reaction networks. Find out more >>

Awards

Federal Grant
Computational Strategies for Mapping Genetic Interaction Networks, $711,269 NIH award to Chad Myers, Ph.D., 4/1/10–11/30/12. This award will support work on computational methods for deriving quantitative measurements of genetic interactions from colony-based growth assays. This work will also involve developing strategies for computationally directed iterative genetic interaction screens.

Deb Erickson, first-year Ph.D. student in the BICB graduate program, received an Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Publications

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