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Department of Computer Science

Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

Research includes developing efficient and scalable algorithms for biomolecular simulation and applying data mining, statistical machine learning, natural language processing, and information retrieval to analyze and mine all kinds of biological data, including DNA sequences, protein sequences and structures, microarray data, and biology literature, for the purpose of facilitating biology discovery.

Lab Locations

  • 2113 Siebel Center (Data Mining & Bioinformatics)
  • 19 Animal Science Lab (Bioinformatics Systems)
  • 330 Edward R. Madigan Laboratory (Biotechnology Center)

Faculty

Saurabh Sinha gene regulation, comparative genomics, sequence analysis
Jiawei Han data mining
ChengXiang Zhai information retrieval, text mining, bioinformatics
Bruce Schatz bioinformatics