The Systems Biology (Sys Bio) group is a five college-wide organization concerned with research and training in the computational aspects of biological systems. Broadly we define systems biology to incorporate the study of complex biological phenomenon by means of interdisciplinary activities in computer science, mathematics, statistics, and engineering. As an umbrella group, Sys Bio promotes research and training in diverse sub-disciplines such as bioinformatics, computational neurobiology, and metabolic engineering. It also promotes regional academic and industry collaborations. We are a loosely affiliated group of educators, researchers, and students who maintain a mailing list, run this informational website, and occassionally run a lecture series.
This website serves the Five Colleges (Amherst, Hampshire, Mt Holyoke, Smith, and University of Massachusetts Amherst) with information on research, training, resources, and local industry-academia connections.
Ram Mettu in Electrical and Computer Engineering will be offering a special seminar course, Topics in Computational Biology, E&C-ENG 697S. Ram's research area is computational structural biology; he has most recently been working on algorithms for automated analysis of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) data.
Jeff Blanchard is offering a hands on Bioinformatics Lab course MICROBIO 590B designed to help students become familiar with existing bioinformatic tools and resources and to learn to write computer programs to test hypotheses and solve biological problems.
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