UNT's Center for Computational Life Sciences -- uniting faculty from the College of Engineering, College of Information and College of Science -- is developing computational methods to help solve the biggest challenges facing life sciences today.

"It used to be that researchers could open up an Excel document, crunch the numbers and then do their own data analysis," says associate professor Serdar Bozdag, the new center's director. "But with the advent of high-throughput technologies, now they're producing vast amounts of biological data, which introduces the new challenge of how to store and interpret it."

Bioinformatics, or computer technology designed to collect, store and analyze biological data can help scholars more efficiently extract valuable knowledge and decrease experiment time.