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Center for Bioinformatics

Center for Bioinformatics Hamburg

Bioinformatics - the application of methods from informatics to scientific problems of life sciences - has become a key technology in the 21st century. The computer has become an integral part of modern molecular biological and pharmaceutical research.

Research in life sciences is characterized by high-throughput experiments, for example sequencing of complete genomes, protein structure determination, expression profile determination, or measuring molecular interactions between biomolecules. These experiments result in large volumes of complex data.

Bioinformatics plays a key role in this context by supplying the appropriate software tools for analyzing, evaluating and interpreting this data.

The research at the Center for Bioinformatics Hamburg (ZBH) covers the following main fields of Bioinformatics:

• storage, analysis and interpretation of genomes and proteomes
• protein structure prediction and protein design
• computer-aided molecular design and chemoinformatics

The focus lies on the development as well as on the application of novel computational methods addressing problems in life sciences. With its four research groups the Center for Bioinformatics Hamburg has a wide range of expertise to develop methods for specific problems and is open to joint applications to support collaborative projects. The specific expertise and interests of the groups are described below.