The mission of the Center for the Study of Biological Complexity is to build an academic community centered on integrative discovery science, systems biology and the principles of complexity to address the challenges of the life sciences revolution of the 21st century. The Center develops and supports critical infrastructure and core capabilities at VCU in genomics, proteomics, and computational systems biology and bioinformatics. Center faculty and fellows apply the mathematical and computational principles of complexity to research, instructional and other scholarly activities in the life sciences.