The main objective of the Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Technologies in Bioinformatics (LITBIO) is to support Bioinformatics applications for Genomics and Proteomics research at an international level.

The goal of Bioinformatics is the creation of novel knowledge by analyzing genomic, proteomic and transcriptomic data to suggest further experiments that provide insight into the molecular basis of life. The data generated by various genome sequencing projects form the basis for extracting information about regulatory modules and networks and interpreting genotypic and phenotypic data.

A number of supercomputers are being developed for human genome analysis and they are being increasingly deployed worldwide. More efficient algorithms and richer analysis toolsets change the way that scientists approach biomedical discovery. The creation of a robust computational platforms and the design of advanced data-mining software for the analysis of large data sets in collaboration with the scientists generating experimental data is a need that is clearly perceived.
LITBIO aims to satisfy this need by providing a reliable resource in terms of computation, knowledge and personnel capable of carrying out and coordinating the various types of high-performance informatics that are necessary for all kinds of biomedical research, development and technology transfer.

LITBIO will actively cooperate and interface with the production departments of Biotechnological, Pharmaceutical and Informatics Industries dedicated to addressing key issues in biomedical research.

LITBIO aims at being highly proactive in the training of Bioinformatics professionals with specific competence in resource integration and data-mining of medical information from large data sets.

LITBIO will establish a distributed network between European Centres for Bioinformatics resources and databases that will offer users the ability to find useful information from bibliographic and genome data, factual or image databases and full text scientific journal information.