$20 million Tasmania bio-informatics centre
Tuesday, 28 May, 2002
A $20 million Centre of Excellence in bio-informatics has been created for Tasmania under the Federal Government's $40 million Intelligent Island program.
With bio-informatics, computers are potentially able to predict some of the contributing factors to diseases and design improved methods for predicting, diagnosing or treating them. Also, computers analyse health records and find patterns of information that can be used to develop pharmaceutical drugs.
Tasmania's excellent genealogical and health records, together with its relatively recent European settlement and island geography make it a perfect environment for advanced developments in bio-informatics - one that is unrivalled anywhere else in the world.
It is expected that advances in bio-informatics will spur activity in other IT sectors like data storage, data management, data mining and development of analysis and visualisation software.
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