NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) - The Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics at the University of California, Irvine, has won a five-year, $5.6 million award from the National Institute of Health's National Library of Medicine to fund educational programs in biomedical computing, the university said Thursday.
The Biomedical Informatics Training program trains graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at UC Irvine's School of Information and Computer Sciences.
UC Irvine said the program will provide specialized training for the students, who each will work with two faculty members from different disciplines and will team with students from another field as well.
The IGB programs will offer training in molecular biology and biochemistry, as well as computer modeling of biological systems, statistics, programming, and database development.
"We can use computers to better understand living systems and conversely draw inspiration from living systems to design better machines for processing information," said IGB director Pierre Baldi, who will oversee the training program.