Bioinformatics

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• The Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics (DCM&B), located within the University of Michigan Medical School, strives to create novel informatics- and computationally-based methods, tools, and algorithms for basic biomedical, translational, and clinical research.  
• The Bioinformatics Graduate Program is the academic component of DCM&B.  
• The Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics (CCMB), founded in 2005, is an interdisciplinary center that provides a foundation for developing new and innovative research directions by combining expertise across schools, departments, and areas of research.  
• The Bioinformatics Core, part of the U-M Medical School's Biomedical Research Core Facilities, provides bioinformatics analysis to support research activities.

The Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics holds a weekly seminar each Thursday, at 12 noon EST, highlighting a tool or technology that is under development or currently being used by biomedical researchers. These seminars are streamed live and are also archived and made available for future viewing. See the Tools and Technology Seminar Series Webpage to get more information, view upcoming speakers, and watch archived talks.

DCM&B has developed a number of freely available tools.  More information and a complete list of the tools can be found on DCM&B Software and Bioinformatics Tools page.