Bioinformatics Club

Turning Data Into Discoveries

Our Club Activities

Bioinformatics Club is a student-led community at the University of Calgary. We open the world of bioinformatics to students from all disciplines and skill levels.

🤝 Networking

Connect with peers, researchers, and professionals shaping the future of bioinformatics.

đź§  Skill-Building

Participate in labs and workshops designed to make bioinformatics tools accessible and exciting.

🌱 Career Growth

Discover unique career paths that blend programming, biology, and problem-solving — from healthcare to agriculture and beyond.

Our goal is to make bioinformatics accessible. We dream of science that is interdisciplinary and open

What is Bioinformatics?

Living organisms store complex information in the form of molecules, such as DNA, that dictate their characteristics and survival. Bioinformatics is the field concerned with deciphering the knowledge contained in these molecules–or biological information systems. This requires the use of computational tools, making bioinformatics the bridge between biology and informatics.

Bioinformatics sketch

Discover Your Impact

A crime scene

Forensic Genomics

CSI
DNA sequencing and database matching for criminal justice — showing how bioinformatics impacts everyday law enforcement and identity verification.
Covid Shots

Vaccine Development

COVID-19 vaccines
Bioinformatics pipelines identify viral proteins and predict immune responses — enabling rapid vaccine design that changed the course of a pandemic.
cows, possibly after mooing

Agrigenomics

Beefier Cows
Applying bioinformatics to crop and livestock genomes — improving yield, disease resistance, and sustainability in agriculture.
Microarray of gene sequences

Human Genome Project

Code of Life
The first complete sequencing of human DNA — a landmark achievement in reading the composition of our genetic blueprint.
Protein Structure

AlphaFold

Protein Prediction
AlphaFold AI-powered protein structure prediction — solving one of biology’s hardest puzzles and accelerating drug discovery worldwide.