Relying on the world class supercomputers, such as Tianhe-2 at NSCC-Guangzhou, Mira at Argonne National Lab, the lab develops computational techniques to study biologically important problems, such as protein folding and structure prediction, gene assembly and classification etc. The aim is, through developing more efficient computational algorithms, to provide fundamental understanding of several key issues in these areas.
Research is funded by The National Key Research and Development Program of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863), Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Science & Technology Innovation Commission of Shenzhen.