Bioinformatics
The Bioinformatics Group is investigating a range of questions, from the origin of introns to the prediction of three-dimensional protein structure. The rapidly growing trans-disciplinary research team employs ideas drawn from molecular biology, statistics, mathematics, and computer science. Projects underway include a study of the origin of introns, in which the group is working at the nucleotide level and exploring how statistical methods might resolve this question; development of new statistical methods for clustering in microarray experiments, involving both non-model-based and Bayesian approaches; protein structure prediction.
The members of the group are Mr Stephen Brown, Dr David Bulger, Ms Sigurbjorg Gudlaugsdottir, Dr Jun Ma and Prof. Graham Wood.