Theatre B, Richard Berry Building
The University of Melbourne
Genetics and Bioinformatics Group, The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research,
and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne.
Following the completion of the major genome projects, bioinformatics enters a new phase. The mathematical, statistical and computational aspects of mapping chromosomes will be greatly downplayed, and the question of interpreting sequence data will come to the forefront. One immediate concern is finding all the genes and regulatory elements in the DNA sequence of a genome. At the same time we want to find out what all the genes do: how they interact with each other and with the world to produce what is called in genetics a phenotype. Mathematics, statistics and computer science all help in these and related problems. In this talk I will try to explain how.