[Computational Biology] NCKU Sets Up Genetics, Genomics, Computational Biology Education Center

[Computational Biology] NCKU Sets Up Genetics, Genomics, Computational Biology Education Center (Chinese Version)

NCKU News (2012/12/11) The Society of Genetics, Genomics and Computational Biology had officially set up an education center at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, to facilitate genetics and computational biology studies and to promote international interaction and communication in these fields, the university announced Dec. 5.

Dr. Chi-Chuan HWANG, Chair of the education center, said that in order to promote research in these areas, the society had set up different teams based on different job contents, including the biology database team, the non-biological resource team, the computational biology skills team, the genetics team, the biotechnology team and the talent development team, and assigned people from the society’s member countries to these teams.

“The education center established at NCKU is focusing on talent cultivation,” said HWANG, adding that the center hopes to recruit young students from different fields, including biology, medicine and engineering, in order to conduct interdisciplinary research.

With Fujitsu providing the hardware equipment, the first step taken by the education center was to ensure that the new software is capable of handling huge amount of data, and also to carry out the construction of gene pool and genome sequencing alignment, according to HWANG.

Japan’s National Institute of Genetics (NIG) Deputy Director Takashi GOJOBORI, who is also Visiting Distinguished Chair Professor of NCKU, pointed out that efforts will be focused on the research of the variation of native species in Taiwan, especially the collection and analysis of seed gene pool, to build a complete gene sequencing database and also conduct a complete gene sequencing analysis on the collected genes.

The center will serve as an important platform for international interaction and communication in these fields, according to GOJOBORI who serves as the president of the center, whose main purpose is not only to develop and nurture talent for research, but also to recruit domestic and foreign scholars to conduct education training and organize idea exchange sessions between member countries including China, Japan, South Korea, and Malaysia.

The education content includes the research themes of each team in this society, which will be executed at three levels -- foundation, application and advancement.

Besides, this center will host and organize an annual international competition in order to lead Taiwan towards achieving international level of competitiveness as well as to strengthen the cooperation between Taiwan and other member countries in these fields.


Related Website:
http://news-en.secr.ncku.edu.tw/files/14-1083-100693,r614-1.php


Further Information:
NCKU News 2012/12/11

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