Transcript J. Douglas Armstrong

Bioinformatics at
Edinburgh
J. Douglas Armstrong
Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation,
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
Bioinformatics
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Biological databases (anatomy, gene expression)
Database integration
Data provenance
Evolutionary and genetic computation
High performance data structures for semistructured data (Vectorised XML)
Machine learning
Microarray data analysis
Natural language and bio-text mining
Neural computation, visualisation and simulation
Systems Biology (protein complexes)
BRAINWAVE
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J. Douglas Armstrong
David barber
R. Wayne Davies
Currently developing Machine Learning tools to
de-skill data analysis
GABA
Bioinformatics Training
• Masters Training Programme in Bioinformatics
– The first UK programme aimed at Computing
students
– ~20 students per year
– Audited by Commercial partners
• New Programmes (2004/5)
– Systems Biology
– E-Science and Grid Technologies
– Analytical and Scientific Databases