Master in Bio-informatics and Modelling, Research Focus – (M.Sc.)

Born about twenty years ago and firstly used to align and compare gene and protein sequences, bioinformatics had to face the challenge of knowledge explosion, linked with the sequencing of a large number of genomes. On the pressure of the amazingly large amount of information available nowadays, the data treatment algorithms have to evolve rapidly.

Modelling had quite naturally appeared as a complementary field to bioinformatics as a predictive and explanatory tool of the processes related to the data analysis. Let us point out the examples of the protein secondary or tertiary structure predictions or the modelling of complex biological systems and their interactions with their environment.
These two disciplines are the roots od a new orientation aiming at analyzing and understanding a set of complex systems in relation with the living world and the environment : the master in bioinformatics and modelling.
If you choose this way, you already build our future.

At the University of Liege, several groups of researchers have developed an expertise in bioinformatics: in gene sequence alignments, genomics, proteomics, philogenetics, or systems biology and it should be pointed out that exceptional equipment is available witihin the GIGA centre where the bioinformatics department has the mission to develop the research in bioinformatics, systems biology, and chemical biology.