Bioinformatics is the application of information technology to biological data.

Cancer includes more than 100 distinct diseases with disparate causes and risk factors.

Finding out how proteins work, and what roles they play, is essential to understanding disease mechanisms.

A new era of personalized medicine.

We are not alone! Trillions of microbes (the human microbiota) reside on and in the human body.

The tools to examine the complete genetic "roadmap" of pathogens.

Some of the most difficult diseases to treat are caused by eukaryotic pathogens.

Without plants, there could be no human life.

Virtually every niche on earth is occupied by microbial communities of varying complexity.