1. J. Douglas Armstrong Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Bioinformatics at Edinburgh

2. Bioinformatics Biological databases (anatomy, gene expression) Database integration Data provenance Evolutionary and genetic computation High performance data structures for semi- structured data (Vectorised XML) Machine learning Microarray data analysis Natural language and bio-text mining Neural computation, visualisation and simulation Systems Biology (protein complexes) 1/2

4. BRAINWAVE J. Douglas Armstrong David barber R. Wayne Davies

5. GABA Currently developing Machine Learning tools to de-skill data analysis

6. Bioinformatics Training Masters Training Programme in Bioinformatics –The first UK programme aimed at Computing students –~20 students per year –Audited by Commercial partners New Programmes (2004/5) –Systems Biology –E-Science and Grid Technologies –Analytical and Scientific Databases