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Genome Sciences Institute

Fostering excellence and interdisciplinary collaborations in research and training in the Genome Sciences.


Understanding the function and evolution of genomes, how they interact with each other and the environment and the consequences for health and fitness, requires a combination of new high throughput experimental techniques and innovative approaches to handling, analyzing and integrating the massive data these techniques produce. Insight and understanding in this 21st century enterprise are quintessentially interdisciplinary.

The Institute, cutting across departments and colleges at Penn State, brings together people with a range of expertise and scientific perspectives. Centers of excellence and projects within the Institute belong to four broad thematic areas:

  • Algorithms, computational tools and bioinformatics  
  • Statistics and machine learning for high throughput data analysis and integration
  • Functional, evolutionary and ecological genomics
  • Translation and biomedical applications