Bioinformatics
One of the projects researcher Clare Congdon works on is Bioinformatics. Bioinformatics is most broadly the use of (and development of) computer science tools and techniques to acquire, store, organize, archive, analyze and visualize biological data. More specifically, the term has come to refer to forms of biology that relate to genetics, such as alignments, patterns of substitution, phylogenetics, and protein folding. Bioinformatics is a broad and interdisciplinary field, encompassing interests and expertise from fields such as Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, and Mathematics/Statistics.
Most subfields of computer science have roles in bioinformatics. Because there is such a huge amount of data to be stored and processed, two of the most obvious CS specialties involved in bioinformatics are data bases (efficient storage and retrieval of data) and machine learning (finding patterns in the data). Human-computer interaction (HCI) and visualization are also essential.