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'''The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute''' at [[Virginia Tech]] is a [[bioinformatics]], [[computational biology]], and [[systems biology]] research facility that uses transdisciplinary approaches combining information technology, biology and medicine to interpret and apply vast amounts of biological data generated from basic research to some of today’s key challenges in the biomedical, environmental and agricultural sciences. VBI has more than 240 highly trained multidisciplinary, multinational personnel, including ovver 50 tenured and research faculty. Research at VBI involves collaboration in diverse disciplines such as mathematics, computer science, biology, plant pathology, biochemistry, systems biology, statistics, economics, synthetic biology and medicine. The institute develops -omic and bioinformatic tools and databases that can be applied to the study of human, animal and plant diseases as well as the discovery of new vaccine, drug and diagnostic targets.
* [http://www.vbi.vt.edu/ Virginia Bioinformatics Institute website]
{{Virginia Tech}} [[Category:Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]][[Category:Bioinformatics organizations]][[Category:Organizations established in 2000]][[Category:Genetics or genomics research institutions]][[Category:Research institutes in the United StatesDepartments]]
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