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Homepages of academic research groups engaged in research in bioinformatics - using computers to process biological information.

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• Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory at Iowa State University

  http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~honavar/aigroup.html
  Development of data-driven knowledge acquisition in computational molecular biology from diverse, distributed, biological data sets with applications in genetic network inference and macromolecular structure-function characterization.

• BioAfrica

  http://www.bioafrica.net/
  Rural research center in South Africa funded by the Wellcome Trust providing bioinformatics research and software.

• bioinfo-hr.org

  http://www.bioinfo-hr.org/
  Home of the Bioinformatics Group at the Faculty of Science, Zagreb, Croatia. Research include: codon usage analysis (INCA software package), and microarray data processing in context of metabolic pathway networks (MADNet).

• Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Unit

  http://bioinformatics.georgetown.edu/
  Home page for Georgetown University bioinformatics group.

• Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics at Ghent University, Belgium

  http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/
  Group in the Department of Plant Systems Biology. Working on functional, structural, and comparative genomics.

• BioInformatics Centre - Singapore

  http://www.bic.nus.edu.sg/
  BIC hosts Bio-Resources including BioAgent, BioPortal, APBioNET, BioJournals, BioFTP Sites, BioSoftware, Biotech Directories, BioNet News/Archives, Bio Databases, Bio Catalogs, E-Mail Servers, Virtual Lib, Web Search, Patent Search

• Bioinformatics Centre, IMTECH, Chandigarh, India

  http://www.imtech.res.in/bic/
  A bioinformatics research centre with interests such as protein structure prediction and biocomputing. Provides useful software including some they have developed.

• Bioinformatics Computational Core Laboratories

  http://www.vcu.edu/csbc/bccl/
  Research at BCCL at Virginia Commonwealth University is focused on the Cryptosporidium hominis genome sequencing project.

• BioInformatics Institute of A*STAR, Singapore

  http://www.bii.a-star.edu.sg/
  An independent organization affiliated to the National University of Singapore. Research is focused on theoretical approaches aimed at understanding biomolecular mechanisms, the development of computational methods and the experimental verification of predicted structures.

• Bioinformatics Unit at University of Manchester

  http://bioinf.man.ac.uk/
  Provides links both to projects and the people involved, comparative dot plots of whole genomes and chromosomal fragments, a browsable ontology of bioinformatics, Comparative interaction tables, 3D visualisation of the yeast protein clusters in the INTERACT database, EMBL-SCALAR, Search at SWISSPROT using Conceptual BLAST.

• Brutlag Bioinformatics Group

  http://motif.stanford.edu/
  Homepage of a group at Stanford University who are interested in the problems of predicting biological function and structure from primary sequence. Developers of EMOTIF, EMATRIX, and 3MOTIF.

• Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, University of New York at Buffalo

  http://www.bioinformatics.buffalo.edu/
  Bioinformatics research center with over 100 scientists with biological, physical and computational expertise engaged in interdisciplinary research.

• Center Systems Biology: University of Stuttgart

  http://www.centersysbio.uni-stuttgart.de/
  Provides details of the Center, research, seminars, the central imaging project, partnerships, events and links.

• Central Plantation Crops Research Institute

  http://bioinfcpcri.org/
  Library and Bioinformatics Centre, with databases on the biotechnological aspects of coconut, cocoa and arecanut. Provides career opportunities, staff profiles and mission statement.

• Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

  http://compbio.charite.de/
  Group at Charité Berlin developing algorithms and applications in the field of gene ontology, phenotypic analysis, machine learning and modeling of biological networks, using the tools of linear algebra and graph theory.

• Computational Biology Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

  http://www.cbc.mskcc.org/
  Bioinformatics and computational biology research.

• Computational Biology Research Center

  http://www.cbrc.jp/
  Computational Biology Research Center at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. The focus is on bioinformatics in terms of information theory independent from experimental-biology projects.

• Computational Functional Genomics Laboratory

  http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Teams/Team101
  The Computational Functional Genomics Lab at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

• Computational Genetics Laboratory

  http://www.epistasis.org/
  Develops and applies computational and statistical methods to detecting and characterizing genetic, genomic, and proteomic biomarkers of common human diseases.

• Computational Structural Biology - Prof. Amedeo Caflisch Research Group

  http://www.biochem-caflisch.unizh.ch/
  Developing of computational methodologies and software tools for the study of protein folding, misfolding and aggregation as well as structure-based drug design.

• Dinulab

  http://www.dinulab.org/
  Provides information on research, led by Dr Valentin Dinu at Arizona State University, into the assessment, improvement and development of computational approaches, software applications and databases.

• DISCO Research Group

  http://bioinformatics.bio.disco.unimib.it/
  Computational Biology and Natural Computing.

• Discovery Informatics and Computing Group

  http://bio.informatics.iupui.edu/
  Bioinformatics group led by Prof. Jake Chen at the Indiana University School of Informatics, IUPUI campus.

• GeneSilico

  http://genesilico.pl/
  Homepage of the Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering. Provides free access to a number of bioinformatic servers and databases and information about the interdisciplinary group headed by Janusz Bujnicki.

• Genome Analysis and System Modeling Group of the Life Sciences Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  http://compbio.ornl.gov/
  The mission of this organization is to address fundamental questions in the life sciences and provide information and analytical resources to the wider biology research community.

• GeoPense

  http://www.geopense.net/
  Worldwide volunteer computing teams harnessing institutional and individual resources to contribute to basic science research. Early projects include protein folding and the search for gravitational waves from deep space.

• Gerstein Group

  http://bioinfo.mbb.yale.edu/
  Research in the field of bioinformatics, using computation to analyze genome sequences, expression datasets and macromolecular structures.

• Helix Group at Stanford

  https://sites.stanford.edu/helix/
  This is a research group within the Stanford Medical Informatics laboratory directed by Russ Altman, MD, PhD. They focus on the application of computational techniques to problems in molecular biology. They are particularly interested in (1) knowledge-based systems for supporting scientific computation (2) the representation and manipulation of structural uncertainty, (3) and the development of novel representations of structure that are useful for computing.

• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: Bioinformatics Laboratory

  http://icahn.mssm.edu/research/labs/bioinformatics-zhang-laboratory
  Provides an overview of the laboratory and details of publications, research projects and the research team.

• Institute of Molecular Bioscience

  http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/
  The Institute for Molecular Bioscience is the centrepiece of a research complex being developed by the University of Queensland in partnership with Australia's CSIRO and other research agencies. Research focus is on animal, biomedical and pharmaceutical research and it has a major division of genomics and bioinformatics.

• Lab for Biocomputing and Informatics at Boston University

  http://tandem.bu.edu/
  Focuses on development of algorithms and software tools for the detection and analysis of novel patterns and repeats in DNA and RNA sequences.

• Lawrence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics

  http://www.bioinformatics.iastate.edu/
  Bioinformatics faculty, research, training, and resources at Iowa State University.

• Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics

  http://www.lcb.uu.se/
  At Uppsala, Sweden. Research areas include algorithms and databases, genome studies, expression and function, and structure and design. Runs courses and seminars.

• Molecular Information Theory

  http://www-lmmb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/
  Home page of the Molecular Information Theory group at the Center for Cancer Research Nanobiology Program, NIH.

• Purdue University: Kihara Bioinformatics Laboratory

  http://kiharalab.org/
  Provides information on the areas of research, projects, people and publications.

• Research Institute of Molecular Pathology: IMBA Bioinformatics Group

  http://mendel.imp.ac.at/
  Offers inter-disciplinary expertise in biocomputing and information technology including sequence analysis and large scale datasets.

• Roslin Institute Bioinformatics

  http://bioinformatics.roslin.ac.uk/
  Offers database lists, laws, and tool download, from Roslin Institute.

• South African National Bioinformatics Institute

  http://www.sanbi.ac.za/
  SANBI aims to bring genome information, computational biology, and analytical tools to the South African research community. Overview of projects, training and resources in Bellville.

• St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University: Department of Computational Biology

  http://urchin.spbcas.ru/
  General departmental information, publications, awards and staff. Also include an overview of the systems biology, data acquisition and development of software to assist research.

• Structural Bioinformatics Group

  http://ufq.unq.edu.ar/sbg/
  Structural Bioinformatics Group at Quilmes National University in Argentina.

• Structural Bioinformatics Lab at Boston University

  http://structure.bu.edu/
  The homepage for the Structural Bioinformatics Lab at Boston University under Dr. Sandor Vajda.

• Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

  http://www.scfbio-iitd.res.in/scfbiogroup/bioinformaticsindia.htm
  This facility at the Indian Institute of Technology aims to establish a nodal facility for supercomputing and develop novel scientific methods and new software for genome analysis.

• The Centre for Integrative Bioinformatics Vrije University Amsterdam

  http://ibivu.cs.vu.nl/
  The IBIVU hosts biostatistics, computer science, genomics, molecular cell physiology and core bioinformatics groups for research and education. Teaching includes an international 2-year bioinformatics master course.

• Theoretical and Computational Biology Group

  http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/genomes/TCB/
  The Theoretical and computational biology group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge is headed by Cyrus Chothia. The group has a strong interest in genome analysis and protein structure.

• UC Santa Cruz: Bioinformatics, Applied Mathematics and Biostatistics

  http://www.cbse.ucsc.edu/research/bioinfo
  Interests include assembling the human genome, protein structure prediction, stochastic context-free grammars for RNA alignment.

• UCLA Bioinformatics

  http://www.bioinformatics.ucla.edu/
  Main web site for the UCLA Bioinformatics program.

• USCS Genome Bioinformatics

  http://genome.ucsc.edu/
  Provides genome browser, gene sorter, blat search function, and publications.

• Vancouver Bioinformatics User Group

  http://vanbug.org/
  Association of researchers and students in British Columbia who have an interest in the field of bioinformatics. Meeting and contact information provided.

• Virginia Bioinformatics Institute

  http://www.vbi.vt.edu/
  Commonwealth of Virginia shared resource. Based at Virginia Tech.

• Wold Lab: Bioinformatics

  http://woldlab.caltech.edu/
  The Wold Lab at the California Institute of Technology is interested in the composition, evolution and function of regulatory networks that govern how mammalian cell fates are specified and executed during development and during regeneration.

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