Bioinformatics

Our research in bioinformatics mainlys involves functional annotation of genomes, creation of databases, comparative genomics and experimental approaches for validating computational predictions. In collaboration with the Institute of Bioinformatics in Bangalore, India, we have recently developed a human Protein Reference Database which is available at http://www.hprd.org. We will also promote the use of Distributed Annotation System to enable further annotation of our database by individual researchers at any location. Our other interests include protein domain identification and clustering, identification and annotation of genes, cataloguing alternate splice forms and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).