{"id":30629,"date":"2025-02-03T12:19:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/data-science-centre\/?page_id=30629"},"modified":"2025-11-05T10:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T10:14:55","slug":"computational-biology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/data-science-centre\/computational-biology\/","title":{"rendered":"Computational Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"vf-grid | vf-grid__col-3\"><div class=\"vf-grid__col--span-2\"><!--[vf\/content]-->\n<div class=\"vf-content\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About Computational Biology<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Data Science Centre provides guidance and expertise in computational biology, supporting EMBL\u2019s interdisciplinary research by bridging biology, mathematics, and computer science within a collaborative framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Computational biology is the use and development of computational tools to analyse data generated by advanced technologies, such as cryo-EM, high-throughput sequencing, and multi-omics experiments. 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