China's First Institute for Computational Biology Opens in Shanghai

摘要

Advances in biotechnology have created more and new large-scale data-sets which in turn require better integration of data-analysis, hypothesis-formation and experiments. To address the issue, a new institute, the CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB), has been set up in Shanghai under the cooperation of CAS and Max Planck Society (MPG). The major tasks of the new institute, an affiliate of the CAS Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS), are to create and apply mathematical, statistical, and computational models and methods in theoretical and experimental molecular and cell biology areas, says Prof. Andreas Dress, founding director of PICB, formerly a mathematician at the University of Bielefeld and the MPG Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences.