The Center supports the development of new tools for analyzing and integrating data from a wide variety of -omics sources — including genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, molecular modeling, high-throughput screening, chemical biology, structural biology, and imaging — all of which involve large high-throughput complex datasets that can challenge limits of available software tools and require high capacity as well as reliable data storage and management.
As part of its mission to support biomedical research at The Wistar Institute, the CSCB provides comprehensive expertise to assist with every aspect of scientific computing and data analysis. The CSCB offers consultations and can help with planning, troubleshooting and answering any computational biology-related questions, including services offered through the Bioinformatics Facility.
Members of the CSCB also collaborate on a wide variety of projects related to detecting, understanding and treating cancer, other diseases and clinical disorders, as well as projects on infectious disease and the development of new and more effective vaccines.
Under its umbrella, the CSCB houses the Computational Biology Interest Group (CBIG), an institute-wide network serving to promote interaction of Wistar scientists with any degree of involvement in computational biology, with core expertise represented by the computational labs and Bioinformatics Facility of The Wistar Institute.
