计算生物学和生物信息学是一个多学科领域，致力于回答基因组革命带来的问题。它涵盖计算机科学的多个领域，包括组合优化，机器学习，数据管理和科学计算的算法。它汇集了来自许多领域的科学家和工程师，包括计算机科学，分子生物学，基因组学，遗传学，数学，统计学和物理学。生物信息学和计算生物学中心是作为马里兰大学高级计算机研究所（UMIACS）内的一个中心而组织的，该研究所是一个跨学科的研究所，为整个College Park园区的高性能计算研究提供支持。
The Computer Science Department's graduate program is ranked among the top in the nation and in the top ten among public universities. Both M.S. and Ph.D degrees are offered, and almost all full-time students receive financial aid in the form of assistantships, fellowships, and grants. The Department has strong research programs in the following areas: artificial intelligence, computer systems and networking, database systems, programming languages, software engineering, scientific computing, algorithms and computation theory, computer vision, geometric computing, graphics, human-computer interaction, and bioinformatics.<br><br>Computational Biology and Bioinformatics is a multidisciplinary area dedicated to answering questions arising from the genome revolution. It spans multiple areas in computer science, including algorithms for combinatorial optimization, machine learning, data management, and scientific computing. It brings together scientists and engineers from many fields, including computer science, molecular biology, genomics, genetics, mathematics, statistics, and physics. The Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology is organized as a center within the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), an interdisciplinary research institute supporting high-performance computing research across the College Park campus.