Research Areas and Projects


Bioinformatics and computational biology are cross-disciplinary fields aimed towards solving biological problems. Their techniques draw heavily from the fields of computer science, mathematics, statistics, the physical sciences and other disciplines in attempt to understand the enormous complexity of biological systems.  Our center includes work on the following areas; click the subheadings for details.


Projects organized by funding source

NIH grant R01-LM06845, PI Steven Salzberg
NIH grant R01-LM007938, PI Steven Salzberg
NSF grant IIS-0812111, PI Mihai Pop, Co-PI Carl Kingsford
NSF grant IIS-0844494, PI Mihai Pop, Co-PI Steven Salzberg
NIH grant R01-HG-004885, PI Mihai Pop
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, PI Jim Nataro (UM School of medicine), subcontract to Mihai Pop.
NSF grant DBI-0755048, PI Michael Cummings


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