From Nucleotides 2 Networks

Welcome to the Homepage of the Multidisciplinary Research Partnership called N2N (from Nucleotides to Networks), a new initiative to spearhead research on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at Ghent University.

Recent (r)evolutions in technologies that produce enormous amounts of molecular data have dramatically changed the way we tackle problems in molecular biology and has created a huge need for highly trained scientists, with very diverse backgrounds, to collect, store, and analyse these data using advanced ICT infrastructures and bioinformatics tools. Furthermore, it has become clear that it is essential to integrate these various kinds of biological information and large-scale data sets to describe and understand complex biological processes and pathways. Today, there is indeed a tendency to no longer study genes and proteins as isolated entities but rather as part of regulatory and interacting biological networks. Computational and statistical modeling methods are being developed to discover new and emergent properties that cannot be detected or understood by classic reductionist approaches and mathematical models are being developed that provide a systems-based understanding of how such systems are affected (and their phenotypes changed) in response to changes in environment.
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