Bioinformatics & Statistics

Bioinformatics, a discipline that unites biology, computer science and information technology, helps researchers understand how genes or parts of genes relate to other genes, and how genes interact to form networks. These studies provide insight to normal cellular functions and how these functions are disturbed by disease. Statistics is central to most genetic approaches for investigating human diseases, and is heavily used by labs doing gene mapping, microarrays, epidemiology, population genetics and risk analysis.