Computational Life Sciences
This key research area coordinates the numerous activities at the Faculty that focus on applying and developing information technologies in the life sciences. In addition to forming topic-related clusters, this key research area is aimed at the interdisciplinary establishment of new methods in the fields of pharmacoinformatics, in-silico metabolomics, proteomics and bioinformatics, genomic evolution, sequence-function relationships, multi-omics methods, machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence, as well as structural and systems biology. Particular emphasis is laid on processing high-throughput biological data, the development of mathematical methods for modelling biological and biomolecular systems, large-scale metagenome analyses, computational drug design, molecular informatics, as well as data integration and data mining.
This key research area cooperates closely with other centres and faculties, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Max Perutz Labs. The move to the new location at the Vienna Biocenter Campus will further intensify the existing cooperation with the Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna (CIBIV).
Research Groups
Research Group / PI | Research Topic | Department |
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Maria Filipa Baltazar de Lima de Sousa | Archaea Genome Evolution and Ecology | Functional and Evolutionary Ecology |
Gerhard Ecker | Pharmacoinformatics | Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Franz Gabor | Smart Drug Delivery | Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Johannes Kirchmair | Computational Drug Discovery and Design | |
Florian Kopp | Molecular Functions of Mammalian noncoding RNA | Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Martin Kuhlwilm | Evolutionary genomics | Evolutionary Anthropology |
Thierry Langer | Cheminformatics | Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Steffen Waldherr | Computational Methods for Bio-/Chemical Processes | Functional and Evolutionary Ecology |
Johann Waringer | Benthic Communities and Bioindication | Functional and Evolutionary Ecology |
Michael Wirth | Smart Drug Delivery | Pharmaceutical Sciences |