The bioinformatics group is one of the research groups in the Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience (CMBN) at Rikshospitalet, Oslo University Hospital and the University of Oslo (UiO), Norway.

The group also belongs to the Department of Microbiology at Rikshospitalet and UiO. The group is co-located in the Joint Centre for Bioinformatics with the Biomedical research group at the Department of Informatics, UiO.

Our research is focused on improving the computational analysis of all of the available genome sequences. Genes involved in DNA repair are of particular interest for us and are also the subject of molecular biology research within CMBN.

We provide a few services, for instance the PARALIGN homology search tool, and the RNAmmer ribosomal RNA locator tool.

Publika - the scientific publication database for Oslo University Hospital has been developed in the group.

We also work in structural bioinformatics, for instance by modelling the structure of proteins and predicting the effect of mutations. An example of this is the work by Jon K. Lærdahl et al. on the PCSK9 protein shown below (see publication for details).