Our Mission
• Research: To improve human health and advance the
   scientific understanding of life through the use of computation.
   We emphasize the role of computing in molecular biology.
• Education: To train graduate students and postdoctoral fellows
   who will make significant, original contributions to computational
   biomedical research.
• Service: To facilitate collaborations among relevant faculty and
   organizations throughout the University of Colorado and meet the
   needs for computational bioscience research throughout the University.

Our Expertise and Leadership
The Computational Bioscience core and affiliated faculty work in a wide range of areas, including biomedical text mining, protein structure simulations, RNA sequence and structure analysis, graphical models of protein interactions, and statistical analysis of regulatory sequences. They have appointments in ten different Departments on two campuses, including Medicine, Pharmacology, Biometrics, Biochemistry and Computer Science.

Our results have been published in Nature, Science, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and other top journals.

The program was founded and is directed by Prof. Lawrence Hunter, founder of the International Society for Computational Biology, and the popular ISMB and PSB conferences. Dr. Susan Trapp, Associate Director, coordinates research collaborations, promotes external relations, and recruits for the training program.

Our innovative training program is structured around teaching four key competencies: knowledge, communication, professionalism, and life-long learning skills.

The National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and a variety of corporations and foundations support our research with millions of dollars in research and training grants.

International and local businesses such as IBM and Dharmacon support the Program and rely on its members for consultation and collaboration.

We organize the annual Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting on Bioinformatics to bring computational bioscience researchers together each December in Aspen, Colorado.

Our History
The University of Colorado has a long tradition of outstanding research and training in computational bioscience. Several of the most important scientists in the field, including David Haussler and Gene Myers, received their graduate training at the University. The School of Medicine began offering a Ph.D. degree in Computational Bioscience in 2001, and was awarded the prestigious National Library of Medicine Biomedical Training grant in 2006.