The Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU)
Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE) recently developed a track in
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Translational Bioinformatics is defined as the development of analytic, storage, and interpretive methods to optimize the transformation of increasingly voluminous genetic, genomic, and biological data into diagnostics and therapeutics for medicine. With recognition that a key component of this translation is computational biology, the underlying algorithmic and quantitative framework, the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology has created a track that emphasizes both areas and complements our university health care setting at OHSU. The coursework is interdisciplinary (computer science, informatics, statistics and biology), drawing upon inter-institutional faculty expertise (OHSU and Portland State University (PSU)) to ensure a rigorous grounding which serves as the knowledge base for our students and is synergistic with our CTSA award, the Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute (
OCTRI).
