Introduction
Computational biology is a highly interdisciplinary field of biology, relying on basic principles from computer science, biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, and statistics.
Bioinformatics, a popular term in this era of large-scale DNA sequencing, is only a subset of computational biology - the part concerned with the storage, organization, curation and annotation of biological data.
Computational biology extends beyond bioinformatics into the realm of sequence analysis: finding genes and ascertaining their function; predicting the structure of proteins and RNA sequences; and determining the evolutionary relationship of proteins and DNA sequences.
The purpose of this website is to outline my research, and provide links to resources and other information related to these fields.
Computational Biology Projects
Computational Biologist: Jennifer Steinbachs
C.V. - postscript or pdf format
NSERC Postdoctoral Projects:
Mitochondrial genome analysis of Drosophila
Steinbachs, Schizas and Ballard: Efficiencies of genes and accuracy of tree-building methods in recovering a known Drosophila genealogy.
Download data and PAUP* scripts.
Large-scale phylogenetic analysis and high performance computing
Ongoing Projects (from dissertation research)
Molecular evolution of plant ribonucleases (in the self-incompatibility response mechanism)
Theoretical population genetics of self-incompatibility and pollen flow
Dissertation:
The Evolution of Gametophytic Self-Incompatibility: A Theoretical Perspective
(Dissertation - postscript format)
J.E. Steinbachs, N.V. Schizas and J.W.O. Ballard. 2000. Efficiencies of genes and accuracy of tree-building methods in recovering a known Drosophila genealogy. Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2001. Eds. R.B. Altman, A.K. Dunker, L. Hunter, K. Lauderdale, T.E. Klein. World Scientific, Singapore. pp. 606-617.
Bioinformatics : Portal Sites
Medline Workbench - USA Mirror
Bio Online
BioMedNet (free registration required)
The Open Lab, Bioinformatics News
A Short Introduction to Biocomputing
UK HGMP Resource Center
Art's Biotech Resource
Bielefeld University Bioinformatics Server
BioMolecular Engineering Research Center, Boston University
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, George Mason University
Computational Molecular Biology, NIH
Bioinformatics, NMFS/NOAA
KECK Computational Biology, Rice University
CMS Molecular Biology Resource, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Molecular Biology Computation Resource, Baylor College of Medicine
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