Sunday, October 22, 2006

Bioinformatics -- Andy Baxevanis Ouellette BFF

Baxevanis, A.D and Ouellette B.F.F coauthored a book Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins. This book is updated to the 3rd edition in 2005.

Baxevanis's previous work focus on computation analyis of disease-causing mutations from a structural standpoint, using innovative approaches to deduce the prisece structure change in protein cause by a specific genetic mutation. (What method?)

During the early development of microarray, Baxevanis's group developed the first publicly available program to restore and analyze microarray data.

Now, Baxevanis's group the group developed a software program known as GeneLink, which enables researchers to analyze large data sets from studies of complex-trait genetic disorders, such as cancer, diabetes, and hypertension, which involve many genes along with environmental factors.

Quelette is the head of UBC Bioinformatics Centre (UBiC) and this graduate program is worth of time to have a look.

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