ABSTRACT

Computational approaches are becoming increasingly important for many aspects of biology as we generate exponentially growing amounts of data at many levels, from genome sequences to protein structures to whole-genome expression studies to population dynamics. The sheer volume and size of the datasets being generated requires analysis approaches very different from those applied in traditional biology settings. In many respects, computer science is a field devoted to studying scalability, and as such, it is well suited to bring many insights and advances to the problems faced in modern biology.