Research Projects:

Computational Methods and Tools for Promoter Identification.

The goal of proposed project is to develop bioinformatic tools to identify promoter regions and cis-elements within the promoter regions of genes, apply them in the study of a number of important molecular biology studies, especially on non-model organisms, and create databases containing the discovered knowledge.

The computational tools will be developed in close consultation with several laboratories on the NMSU campus that are working with non-model and model organisms - Chile, Alfalfa, Xenopus, Arbuscular Mycorrizal Fungi - and will be tested extensively by these laboratories.

PI: Desh Ranjan
Co-Investigators: Mary O’Connell, Champa Gopalan, Peter Lammers, Enrico Pontelli, Elba Serrano
Collaborators: Srinivas Aluru (Iowa State University)

 

Other Research projects:

An Information Management System for Emerging Pathogen Data.

Bridging the Resolution Gap: Automatic Sequence Mapping for Intermediate Resolution Macro-molecular Structures from Electron Cryo-Microscopy.

A Domain-specific Computational Workbench for Evolutionary Biology.