Welcome to Manchester Informatics
An exciting strategic initiative at the University of Manchester:
- Creating a joined-up multidisciplinary informatics community across the whole University
- Harnessing the creative and intellectual power of world-class academics engaged in informatics research and teaching in
a wide range of disciplines – biology, business, computing, social science, medicine, mathematics, psychology and many others
- Crossing boundaries between disciplines and between Schools: exploiting synergies between areas of existing strength and helping to
identify opportunities for new academic development
- Building the critical mass necessary to tackle many exciting opportunities and challenges in research and teaching
- Developing strategic alliances with external stakeholders
(Image courtesy of Pinney JW, Amoutzias GD, Rattray M, Robertson DL. Reconstruction of ancestral protein interaction networks for the bZIP transcription factors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Dec 18;104(51):20449-53.)
Informatics is a multi-disciplinary approach to information and IS, embracing:
- Study of both natural and engineered systems for the acquisition, storage, integration, processing, visualization and communication of information
- Impact on individuals, organisations and society
- Development of computational thinking, methods and systems
- Simulation and modelling
2008 Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop 2-3rd Dec 2008
Part of the EPSRC's Distributed Computing Support Programme, the Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop will be held on 2nd and 3rd December at the Holiday Inn Runcorn.
Developing countries benefit from online gold rush
Ground-breaking research by Prof Richard Heeks, Centre for Development Informatics.
Textured graphics can be captured in a flash
A new technique that can reconstruct the depth of a surface simply by taking two photos of it - one with a flash and one without - has been developed by a team led Dr Mashuda Glencross from the School of Computer Science.
Prof Douglas Kell appointed as Chief Executive of BBSRC
Prof Kell is a leading figure in the field of systems biology, the multidisciplinary approach to tackling complex biological problems using theory, computer modelling and experimentation.
Cancer Biomedical Informatics caBIG uses the Taverna workbench
The goal of the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid caBIG is to develop applications and the underlying systems architecture that connects together data, tools, scientists and organizations in an open federated environment.
JISC sponsored event: Advanced Tools and Technologies for Collaborative Research
Date: Thursday 6th November 2008Time: 9.