Bioinformatics

    Our Animal DNA
    Activity

    Use online bioinformatics tools to find and compare brand new genome sequences from species sequenced as part of Darwin Tree of Life.
    What is bioinformatics and how do we use it?
    Facts

    Bioinformatics is the science of both storing lots of complex biological data, and of analysing it to find new insights, which we use in many different ways.
    Giants in genomics: Janet Thornton
    Story

    Professor Dame Janet Thornton was director of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), which shares the Wellcome Genome Campus with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, from 2001 to 2015.