Overview

At Bioinformatics at COMSATS University Islamabad is growing for scientists who can speak and understand equally well the languages of computational, mathematical/statistical and biological sciences, and can extract the meaningful information from the raw data. This has necessitated the emergence of new field of study – bioinformatics – where the individuals are simultaneously trained in the integrated areas of computer science, statistics, mathematics and molecular biology.

Key facts

During the past two decades, bioinformatics has evolved into a full-fledged scientific discipline and expanded to areas such as comparative, structural and functional genomics, next generation sequence (NGS) analysis transcriptomics, proteomics, cellomics, metabolic pathway engineering, computational drug, peptide and enzyme designing as well as the development of integrated bioinformatics solutions such as biological and chemical databases, data analysis, data mining, biomedical text mining and customized tool development etc. The availability of complete genome sequences for human as well as several human pathogens coupled with bioinformatics has revolutionized the understanding the biological processes underlying the physiology of both host and pathogens. An equitable contribution of developing countries, such as Pakistan, in this whole process is not only vital for the economic growth of the country but also of global importance to best reap the profits of human resource world-wide.