Pioneering a New Era in Life Sciences by Approaching Life Phenomena as Systems
Life emerged on the water planet called Earth approximately 4 billion years ago. The double helix structure of DNA was proposed approximately 70 years ago. Now that the human genome sequence can be easily analyzed, the life sciences have entered a new era. To unravel the mysteries of life’s mechanisms, we need “bioinformatics” —a field that describes life systems in physical terms, expresses them through molecular changes, and explains them from an information-theoretical perspective.
Students may advance to the Department of Biosciences and Informatics from the following gateway fields.
Gateway C: Information, Mathematics, and Data Science Field
Gateway E: Chemistry and Life Sciences Field