SCHOOL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Staff of the School of IT conduct research in BioInformatics – the application of computer science to Biotechnologies. We work with life sciences and mathematics colleagues to develop novel software systems and methods to mine and analyse the very large and imprecise data sets that characterise biological systems. These software tools will help to generate new Biotech products.
BioInformatics calls on many of the fields of traditional computer science including:
- computational complexity management
- scalable data mining and analysis algorithms
- processing massive distributed databases
- intelligent automatic decision making
- pattern recognition, clustering, classification
- sequence discovery
- visualisation.
Our second area of research interest is wireless Internet technologies.