Quantitative Bioscience at the University of Tennessee

Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is a highly interdisciplinary field harnessing computer science, mathematics, statistics, physics and biology to apply the tools of computation and analysis to capture and interpret biological data. The classic data of bioinformatics include DNA sequences of genes or full genomes; amino acid sequences of proteins; and three-dimensional structures of proteins, nucleic acids and protein-nucleic acid complexes. A primary focus of bioinformatics is the ability to take a genome sequence, whether from a human or bacterium, and predict from the sequence the complete set of genes, how they are regulated and what they do. Skilled bioinformaticians are needed in academia and industry to develop new methods for data management and analysis.

Visit the Center for Environmental Biotechnology's Bioinformatics Resource Center at UT.

	Department	Research Interests
Michael Berry Email	Electrical Engineering & Computer Science; Mathematics	Scientific computing, parallel numerical algorithms, information retrieval, data mining
Scott Emrich Email	Electrical Engineering & Computer Science	Genome-focused bioinformatics, high-throughput and parallel computing, life science applications
Michael Gilchrist Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Evolutionary theory, mathematical biology, molecular evolution, protein translation
Michael Langston Email	Electrical Engineering & Computer Science	Graph algorithms in bioinformatics, machine learning
Sarah Lebeis Email	Microbiology	Plant-microbe interactions, genomics and bioinformatics, plant-associated microbial communities and innate immunology
Rachel Patton McCord Email	Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology	3D genome structure and the biophysics of cell migration
Brian O'Meara Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Phylogenetics, macroevolution
Meg Staton Email	Entomology and Plant Pathology	Bioinformatics, computational genomics, genomic database development
Albrecht von Arnim Email	Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology	Translational regulation of gene expression. Director, Genome Science and Technology Program

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From 2008 until early 2021, NIMBioS was supported by the National Science Foundation through NSF Award #DBI-1300426, with additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.