Abstract of Computational Science Seminar
Bioinformatics: Deciphering the Rosetta Stone of Biology
Prof. Shankar Subramaniam
Biology is going through a period of fundamental change.
The complete genome sequence for an increasing number of
organisms is becoming available. Currently, the full DNA
sequence for several unicellular organisms are at hand and
it is expected that the full DNA sequences will become
available for well known multi-cellular organisms within a
few years. The most pressing problem in the post-genome
sequencing era will be to understand the integrated
functions of thousands of genes. This forms the core of
the new central dogma, shown below. This talk will
highlight computational approaches to assigning structure
and function to gene products and the creation of a
web-based infrastructure for biological databases,
interfaces and analysis tools.