In life sciences conventional experiments are increasingly accompanied by new technologies that provide us with new insights into the complexity of living systems. At CWI, an interdisciplinary research team works on the development of modelling, simulation and data analysis methods that can be applied in a wide range of topics in health, agriculture and energy, as well as contribute to the understanding of the fundamental processes of life.

Life science research helps us for instance to understand the complex mechanisms of cancer at phenotypic and genotypic level. Together with its research partner the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), CWI works on the development of new methods to understand and predict the course of cancer based on statistical medical data analysis and advanced algorithmics.

CWI is co-founder of the Netherlands Institute for Systems Biology (NISB) and the Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology (NCSB) and collaborates with many public and private partners. CWI also plays an active role in developing and maintaining a number of software tools that are freely available for the life science research community.