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BIRC is a recently formed
research centre at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU),
hosted by the School of Computer
Engineering (SCE) in College
of Engineering (CoE) with the participation
of the other schools in CoE, the School of
Biological Sciences (SBS) and National Institute of Education
(NIE).
The BioInformatics Research Centre (BIRC) is the focus of
the education, research and development, and human-resource training
in
bioinformatics at NTU. It brings together scientists and engineers,
who are interested in bioinformatics modeling and computation,
and
fosters cross-disciplinary interactions among different schools at
NTU to perform advanced research in bioinformatics. It also makes
the necessary
partnerships with other research and educational institutions,
locally and abroad, to achieve its objectives.
The mission of BIRC is to provide the interdisciplinary
environment and training for students and researchers to engage in
leading and cutting edge research in bioinformatics, and thereby
become a part of the life sciences workforce in Singapore and
elsewhere.
BIRC also facilitates the teaching and research projects of
the M.Sc. (Bioinformatics) offered by the School of
Computer Engineering and Ph.D.
(Computation and Systems Biology) offered by Singapore - MIT
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