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Overview
Modern biology is now challenged with understanding living organisms on a systems level, empowered by the enormous success of molecular biology and numerous genome projects. This expanded understanding of the molecular basis of living organisms and development of new technologies has created new areas of research as well as excellent employment opportunities in industry, academia, and government.
Bioinformatics and computational biology provide a research platform to acquire, manage, analyze, and display large amounts of data, which in turn catalyze a systems approach to understanding biological organisms, as well as making useful predictions about their behavior in response to environmental and other perturbations. Moreover, bioinformatics is the study of biological systems and large biological data sets using analytical methods borrowed from computer science, mathematics, statistics, and the physical sciences. This interdisciplinary approach to research requires graduates with extensive cross-cultural professional and technical training and provides ample employment opportunities for Ph.D. graduates.
Virginia Tech is offering two independent mechanisms in which students can pursue graduate studies in Bioinformatics:
Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology
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