Computational biology in Colombia

[...]computational resources have evolved in recent years to become available to the general public, with greater ability to solve intense computational problems at low cost. [...]the vast amount of information that is currently being generated and the need for finding the underpinnings of several issues in biology, have been the impetus of the computational biology area in Latin America. In Colombia, computational biology is just starting to be known as a field of research in its own right. [...]mainly chemists and biologists have used bioinformatics as a tool to try to solve their particular research problems. Coffee has historically been the main agricultural export product of Colombia, accounting for 17% of the agricultural production in 2008, and giving employment to more than 560,000 coffee-growing families [1].\n Topics have varied from an introduction to bioinformatics to microarray analyses.