Bioinformatics Experts
The investigators on the people page are those interested in Bioinformatics in Canada. These include practitioners as well as developers of algorithms, databases or resources. Principal investigators and group leaders from academia, government labs and industry are welcome on this page. All present have an interest in the development of bioinformatics resources in Canada.
If you know of any principal investigators or group leaders in the bioinformatics field who are not on the list, please have them fill out the online form so that we can make our directory as complete as possible.
| Name | Affiliation | Interest/Expertise | Region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steven Pelech | Kinexus Bioinformatics Corp. + University of British Columbia | Proteome analysis; signal transduction pathways analysis, disease marker identification, drug target identification | British Columbia |
| Frederic Pio | Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SFU | Apoptosis;proteomics, bioinformatics | British Columbia |
| Shiv Prasad | Brain Research Centre, UBC | Gene expression; microarray analysis | British Columbia |
| Chris Upton | Biochemistry and Microbiology, UVic | Sequencing and anlysis of viruses (RNA and DNA); development of tools to organize, manipulate and analyze viral genomes (especially large genomes) | British Columbia |
| Gertraud Burger | Robert-Cedergren Center for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Dept. Biochemistry, Universit | Genome and EST sequencing; comparative and evolutionary genomics; development of sequence analysis tools, integrated databases and workbench environments. | Quebec |
| B. Franz Lang | Département de Biochimie, Université de Montréal | comparative and evolutionary genomics; comparative modelling of RNAs; genome assembly and annotation; databases and workbenches; molecular phylogenetics; | Quebec |
| Jean Morissette | Centre de recherche du CHUL | Genetic, radiation hydrid and physical map; gene localization; gene expression;microarrays. | Quebec |
| Gregory Butler | Dept of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University | bioinformatics technology, algorithms, software, databases | Quebec |
| Janice Glasgow | Computer Science, Queen's University | Molecular scene analysis; intelligent systems for crystal growth; microarray analysis; | Ontario |
| Anthony Bonner | Computer Science, University of Toronto | artificial intelligence; data mining; machine learning; gene function prediction; inferring gene networks; tandem mass spectrometry; genome mapping; database systems | Ontario |
| Quentin Cronk | University of British Columbia | Interested in microarray mapping (i.e. patterns of gene expression or comparative genomic hybridizatiuon along chromosomes). Co-developer of microarray mapping web tool, Camas http://statgen.ncsu.edu/camas/ | British Columbia |
| Christopher Hogue | Unleashed Informatics. | Biomolecular Interaction Network Database; protein folding; 3D visualization tools; | Ontario |
| Kaizhong Zhang | Computer Sscience, University of Western Ontario | Pattern matching and discovery; RNA structural alignment and comparison; | Ontario |
| Brian Fristensky | Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba | DNA sequence analysis software; gene array analysis; creation and manipulation of local database subsets; Statistical properties of databases | Prairies |
| Russ Greiner | Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta | Artificial intelligence; machine learning; whole proteome analysis; | Prairies |
