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Statistics, maths, biology, chemistry, physics, ecology, anatomy, neuroscience, animation… These are just some of the fields included in Computational Biology. Computational biologists spend their time developing new sophisticated tools to study different biological, behavioural and social systems.
From the Human Genome Project, which sequenced the entire human genome and opened the possibility of personalised medicine; to the newer Human Brain Project, aiming to simulate the whole human brain on supercomputers.
But we need to be cautious when managing this big amount of very personal data; our DNA contains extremely detailed information about each of us. That is why there are also experts that look at the ethics related to genetics research and information.