About
The LSUHSC Bioinformatics and Data Science (BID) Program's Strategic Research Roadmap serves as the guidepost for the campus to reach its full potential in bioinformatics, genomics and data sciences research, educational and service missions. The Core elements of this strategic roadmap with goals are described below.
Strategic Goals of the Program
Recognizing that research, education, and service in bioinformatics and genomics are
inherently interdependent and mutually supportive, the program has the following strategic
goals that address the dimensions of LSUHSC's mission.
Goal 1: Research - To be a recognized nationally and internationally leader in bioinformatics, genomic
and data sciences research, leveraging and strengthening the multidisciplinary research
faculty who are spread across multiple schools and Centers.
Goal 2: Education - To educate and train the next generation of researchers and medical professionals.
We will accomplish this goal by developing a total package of educational offerings
in bioinformatics, genomics and data sciences, including developments of graduate
and outreach programs.
Goal 3: Services - To develop a user-centered and COST-RECOVERY or SHARED COST system to support faculty
research efforts as they use bioinformatics tools, genomics and data science resources
and techniques, independent of physical location of their research laboratories.
Goal 4: Infrastructure - To develop and maintain a scalable interoperable technical infrastructure that
allows high performance and cloud computing for fast and efficient data analysis,
modeling, visualization and integration of large-scale multiplatform and multiscale
biological and clinical data.
Goal 5: Collaboration - To foster research partnerships, integrating research programs across campus, promoting
opportunities for collaboration with Centers, other LSU campuses, other universities
and health organizations, as well as the not-for-profit and for-profit sectors, and
to expand regional, national, and international collaborative partnerships in biomedical
research.