About IBI - People
Founded in 2004, the Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics (IBI) is one of more than 50 institutes, centres and centres of excellences at the University of Calgary.
The IBI conducts leading-edge interdisciplinary research in systems biology under the leadership of Dr. Stuart Kauffman. The IBI is sponsored by iCORE and linked to the Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Machine Learning (AICML) at the University of Alberta.
By combining studies in biocomplexity and informatics, the IBI reaches beyond traditional mathematical modeling in biology. Its interest is in the fundamental principles that govern living organisms, so to speak, in a “theory of life” which differs from modeling using exiting modeling paradigms from engineering. It generates bold but formally rigorous and testable biological and computational theories and conducts experiments on genetic regulatory networks and cell behaviours inspired by or in order to evaluate the new theory.In addition to hosting a group of theorists with access to supercomputers the IBI houses molecular and cell biology laboratories equipped with state-of-art (post)genomic instruments and high-throughput screening facility.
The IBI has now grown to include four faculty members and is still growing.
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