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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Kobler | Tm Bioscience Corporation | Combinatorial problems, graph theory; design of algorithms; computational biology | Ontario |
| Parvin Mousavi | School of Computing, Queen's University | Machine learning, Knowledge discovery from microarray data, Systems biology, Medical image processing | Ontario |
| Fiona Brinkman | Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SFU | Pathogenomics and pathogen evolution; bacterial protein subcellular localization; genome annotation and phylogenetics | British Columbia |
| Ken Barker | Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary | Data aspects of bioinformatics; database integration; Datawarehousing technolgies; | Prairies |
| William Crosby | Department of Biological Sciences - University of Windsor | Gene annotation strategies and tools; Development of information management tools | Ontario |
| Warren J. Gallin | Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta | Comparative proteomics; molecular phylogeny; functional protein evolution; protein structure/function studies; machine learning | Prairies |
| Roy A. Gravel | Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary | Genetic basis of metabolic disease; gene finding based on phylogenetic comparisons; vitamin B12, biotin metabolism and regulation | Prairies |
| Sean Hemmingsen | Plant Biotechnology Institute - NRC | Database management; DNA sequence-based identification and classification of microorganisms; | Prairies |
| Christian Jacob | Dept. of Computer Science and Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Calgary | Emergent Computing in Biological Networks - Collective Intelligence, Swarm Intelligence, Learning and Evolution Immune System Computing - Artificial Immune Systems, Modeling and Simulation Evolutionary Computing - Evolutionary and Swarm Design, Genetic Programming, Genome Programming Bioinformatics - Biocomputing, Swarm-based Modeling of Biomolecular Systems | Prairies |
| Anthony J. Kusalik | Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan | immuno-informatics; RNA structure modeling and prediction; bioinformatics applications of constraint logic programming; microarrays | Prairies |
| Paul Lu | Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta | High-throughput proteome analysis using machine learning and high-performance computing | Prairies |
| Derrick E. Rancourt | Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary | Gene Discovery, Functional Genomics, Mouse Developmental Biology, ES Cell Differentiation, Targeted Mutagenesis, Pathogenomics | Prairies |
| Duane Szafron | Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta | High throughput prediction of annotations such as subcellular localization and function of proteins from primary sequence data. | Prairies |
| Peter Tieleman | Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary | Membrane proteins; Modelling; Molecular simulation; | Prairies |
| Sherif Abou Elela | Universite de Sherbrooke | RNA structure, Curation and analysis of alternatively spliced isoforms, annotation and discovery of non-coding RNA, prediction of ribonuclease cleavage sites. | Quebec |
