About Us :

Mission and Objectives

To significantly enhance the research, education and research training capacity at NMSU in the exciting area of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.

To become nationally competitive and recognized in Bioinformatics research

Establish a graduate program in Bioinformatics

Contribute to diversifying the workforce in this highly promising and important research area.

Research Mission

“Develop computational methods and tools to analyze biological data, derive biological knowledge, and to derive and test biological hypotheses.”

Research Directions

• Knowledge Elicitation from Complex BIological Data Sources – Computational Workbench for Phylogenetic Inference – Information Modeling and Management System for Emerging Pathogens

• Protein Structure Determination for Complex and Membrane Proteins

• Biological Function Determination from Sequence and Expression Data

Educational Mission

“Develop a comprehensive educational pipeline in bioinformatics, from high- school to graduate school.”

Outreach Mission

“Develop a coordinated effort to acknowledge and build on the diversity of NMSU's student population, and increase participation of students from under-represented backgrounds in computational biology professions.”