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We are committed to: Research excellence providing insights into genome-phenome biology. An advanced education and training program that fosters excellence, exposes students from diverse disciplines to new perspectives in bioinformatics, and generates human capital. Improved access to skills, tools and facilities at the interface among genomic and post-genomic biology, molecular cell biology, mathematics, statistics, and computing and information sciences. Critical mass and a national focus for genome-phenome bioinformatics in Australia. We aim to: Integrate insights and new developments in mathematics, statistics, computing and information sciences, genomic and post-genomic biology, and molecular cell biology. Mutually enrich biomolecular research, mathematics, computer science and information technology. Apply innovative laboratory-based experimental phenomic biology to illuminate the development and differentiation of the mammalian cell. Play a leading role in the national and international bioinformatics agenda and in the generation of human capital, enhancing critical mass and national focus in bioinformatics and computational biosciences. Our objectives are to: Examine how the genome comes to life in the mammalian cell during differentiation and development. Use empirical data from advanced microarray, tomographic and sequencing technologies to construct quantitative dynamic models of selected cellular regulatory networks and subcellular systems. Develop advanced algorithmic, statistical and computational methods and knowledge engineering systems, and apply them to extend, refine and inter-relate these models. Deliver advanced prototypes of our integrated data and visual framework for hypothesis-testing, validation discovery, the Visible Cell™, and use them to understand more fundamentally the mammalian cell as an information system. Our investigators have active research collaborations and linkages with a great many overseas institutions, including: Academic Sinica ETH, Switzerland European ...