Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that combines computational and visualisation methods to model and extract knowledge from complex biological, biochemical and clinical data. Modern data science methods such as (multivariate) statistics, machine learning and artificial intelligence allow modelling, analysis, prediction and visualization of ‘Big Data’ derived from a plethora of experimental approaches.

Our data comes from a variety of techniques from genomics to metabolomics through to imaging and clinical diagnostics. A key activity is developing and adapting novel mathematical and statistical algorithms and software to analyse and integrate these diverse data sets to develop software platforms for use in clinical settings, derive new biological and medical insights and to improve our understanding of the factors underlying health and disease.