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BioInformatics Working Group

(A founding member of the Ohio Bioinformatics Consortium)

Integrating computer science and biology to better serve the biological and medical research communities.

Bioinformatics is one of the fastest growing areas in science today.  The need for bioinformatics has been driven by the vast amount of data that can now be generated and is growing exponentially due to improvements in current technologies such as DNA sequencing.  As personalized medicine and other high-technology domains emerge, the rate of growth in the amount of biological and medical data will continue to increase. 

       
                      
                 Coming soon !  Graduate and Undergraduate Certificate Programs in Bioinformatics

    

Faculty /Research Projects
Shawn Chen (BIOS) - RNA molecular biology
                                   Microbial biochemistry

Allan Showalter (PBIO) - Plant cell wall structural proteins
Susan Evans (CHEM) - Genetic modifiers/ cancer

Frank Swartz (COM) - Dept. of Specialty Medicine
                                     Medical databasing
Ahmed Faik (PBIO) - Plant cell wall enzymes, genomics Lonnie Welch (EECS)- Software design
Doug Goetz (BME) - Cell adhesion Sarah Wyatt (PBIO) - Plant gravitropic signal  transduction,
                                   DNA regulatory elements
 John Kopchick (COM)- Diabetes, proteomics

 
 

 
 
                             
Resources and Facilities
The Bioinformatics Laboratory The OU Genomics Facility
Cluster Computer

 

              

Graduate Students (Positions Available)
Kaiyu Shen, PhD student, PBIO/MCB Jens Lichtenberg, PhD student, EECS
  Kyle Kurz, Master Student, EECS
  Xiaoyu Liang, Master Student, EECS
  Josiah Seaman, Master Student, EECS
 
                                 
Undergraduate Research Assistants (Positions Available)
   
   
   
 

 

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