Research Areas

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 an attempt to understand the enormous complexity of biological systems.  Our center includes work in the following areas; click the subheadings for details.

• Genome sequence assembly
• Uncovering genomic variation from genome assembly graphs
• Assembly of metagenomic data
• Computational gene finding
• Genome Sequencing
• Comparative Genomics
• Insignia Pathogen Signature System
• EnteriX Bacterial Alignment Visualization
• Computational Proteomics
• Metagenomics and Environmental Sequencing
• Assembly and gene finding tools for metagenomic data
• Exploring the causes of diarrhea in 3rd world countries
• Visualization of Microarray Data
• Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics
• RNA Splicing

Projects organized by funding source

NIH grant R01-LM006845, PI Steven Salzberg
NIH grant R01-GM083873, 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

Related Research at UMD

• Human Evolutionary Genomics
• Molecular Phylogenetics
• Scientific Computing for Protein Structures
• 3D Graphics and Scientific Visualization
• Life Science Data Management
• Statistical Modelling of Microarray Data