The Center for Bioinformatics and Molecular Simulations (CBSM) of the University of Talca was created in 2004.

CBSM is a multidisciplinary team that includes Bioinformatics Engineer, biologists, microbiologist, physics, chemists and biochemists.
CBSM is inserted in the first school of Bioinformatics Engineering of Latin America.
CBSM through University of Talca and government grants has created one of the most advanced high performance-computing centers for bioinformatics in South America, with more than 400 CPUs for parallel processing.
The multidisciplinary scientific staff of CBSM participates in diverse projects, such as the genome projects and several theoretical-experimental collaborative efforts with national and international groups in biophysics, enzymatic catalysis, computer based drug design, transmembrane molecular simulations and bio- and nano-technology, among others.
All these contributions permit to the CBSM to be one of the most important interdisciplinary groups in Chile, with more than 10 papers per year.
In the same way, the CBSM is continually developing new tools and including novel research fields, like Medicinal Informatics (ACTION-GRID, FP7 project), Health GRID, Bioinformatics applied to Personalized Medicine and nano-informatics.
In the field of nanobiology, CBSM maintains a tight collaboration with the Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory of the National Cancer Institute (NCI, USA) for the development of new computational tools and databases for nanoparticle characterization with the main objective to apply nanotechnology in medicine and biological systems. Fraunhofer Institute (Germany) is other important partner of CBSM for the development of nano-biotechnology projects with potential application in medicine and food industry.

Group Members:

2 Postdocs, 4PhD Students, 12 Bioinformatics Engineer, Chemists, Biochemists, Biotechnology Engineer, 1 MSc in Computer Science, 1 System Administrator.