2003 Volume 23 Issue 5 Pages 415-421
In this article, an introduction of a department of Bioinformatics and Genomics is described. This new department has been established in the Graduate School of Information Science Nara Institute of Science and Technology in the April of 2002. An objective of the new department is educating and training the Bioinformatics/Genomics related knowledge and technology for the graduate school students. They are expected to become the specialists in this interdisciplinary field.