Compbio : Bioinformatics

Compbio members:
Daniela Bartels
Terry Disz
Rob Edwards
Christopher Henry
Elizabeth Marland Glass
Folker Meyer
Robert Olson
Ross Overbeek
Gordon David Pusch
Rick Stevens
Andreas Wilke

Compbio research objective:
Bioinformatics is the study of biological systems through the use of computational tools and the application of methods from computer science, mathematics, and information theory. At Argonne, our goal is to develop new methods and technologies for acquiring, organizing, analyzing, and visualizing such data.

We apply these methods and technologies in two principal areas: sequence and comparative analysis, phylogenetic and evolutionary studies; systems-centered biology and statistical genomics.

Examples of Compbio projects:

Terragenomics : The Argonne Pilot Project for a Comprehensive National Soil Metagenomics Project
Sentra : A Database of prokaryotic signal transduction proteins
caBIG : cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid
MG-Rast : Metagenomics RAST Server
PathoGene: Systems and Tools for Infectious Disease Research
RAST : Rapid Annotation using Subsystem Technology
Target : Target Database