Institute of Computational Biology

At the Institute of Computational Biology (COBI), new technologies for genome sequencing and genome analysis are applied and/or developed. Large-scale data analysis of genomic data (e.g. assemblies, genes, variants) is performed to gain understanding of genome evolution, gene function, and genotype-phenotype interaction, in particular in the field of crop plant genomics. Machine learning is used for modeling and prediction in different areas of the life sciences. COBI maintains a dedicated high-performance computing cluster comprising eight nodes with 344 CPU cores and up to 1024 Gigabytes of RAM. As additional computational resource, COBI has access to the Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC) maintained at Technical niversity of Vienna. Most of the research conducted at COBI is computational; a laboratory is available for sample preparation for DNA/RNA sequencing. COBI teaching covers programming, working on high-performance computers, analysis of biological data, and machine learning. Visit us at seq.boku.ac.at.

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