About the department

In 2002, the Laboratory of Informatics and Chemistry was founded by Dr. Miloslav Nič. The main focus of the laboratory was electronic publishing and the Laboratory guaranteed the study programme "Informatics and Chemistry". In September 2010, Doc. Daniel Svozil became the new head of the Laboratory. With his arrival, the scientific orientation of the laboratory changed to bioinformatics, cheminformatics, computational drug design and molecular modeling. This change was reflected in the accreditation of BSc. and Msc. study programmes “Bioinformatics”, that opened at the UCT in 2014/2015. In November 2017, the Laboratory was transformed to the Department of Informatics and Chemistry. In 2019/2020, the doctoral study program "Bioinformatics" was opened.