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• Saving lives through better breast cancer prediction. . .
• Brain research for 21st century medicine. . .
• Computers revolutionizing life science research. . .
  
  The modern marriage of computers and life science research is revolutionizing life science in remarkable and fundamental ways, from helping researchers model and better understand medical processes to creating a framework for split-second communication among researchers. The Human Genome Project would have been impossible without the computer science disciplines of database systems, artificial intelligence and user-system interface design. Dr. Dong-Guk Shin, a professor of computer science and engineering, became involved in the Human Genome Project during the late 1980s and has expanded his research in biomedical and bioinformatics frontiers since that time. He is involved, for example, in the Virtual Cell, Stem Cell and Proteomics research programs underway at the UConn Health Center. These activities will help researchers build biological models that may facilitate drug discovery, such as in toxicological studies of drug leads and validation of drug targets. In addition, last year, with funding from the National Institutes of Health, he began planning for a future Bioinformatics Center of Excellence in Cellular Biology to be based at UConn. The center will encourage interactions between computational scientists and life scientists engaged in computation-intensive life science research in the areas of virtual cells, microarrays and mass-spectrometry/proteomics.