The world that surrounds and shapes us – our molecules, cells and circle of friends – may be understood as a network of systems embedded within each other. We may be familiar with some of the sub-systems, but we often cannot calculate their complex and unexpected interactions. And so, even though we have the use of a vast variety of informatics tools, understanding the information content of the inherited information, the genome, is a difficult exercise. This lecture invites the audience on a journey into the world of bioinformatics, where human thought and computers together attempt to understand the language of molecules.

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