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
Celia Greenwood Hospital for Sick Children Genetic epidemiology; microarray analysis Ontario
Damian Labuda CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center Population and molecular genetics; genomic evolution; databases and statistical genetic analysis; in vitro evolution - SELEX Quebec
Clement Lam Dept. of Computer Science, Concordia University bioinformatics algorithms; software; Quebec
Roger C. L University of Laval Microbial genome annotation; proteomics; in vivo bacterial genome profiling; whole-genome analysis for drug resistance and virulence;chractewrization of unknown and hypothtical proteins from Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quebec
Kirsten Muller University of Waterloo Phylogenetic analyses; RNA sequence alignment; comparative sequence analysis; secondary and tertiary structure of RNA in phylogeny Ontario
Jean-Pierre Perreault Department of BIochemistry, University of Sherbrooke Study of RNA structure/function, Ribozyme, prediction of small genes. Quebec
Joseph F. Angel Biochemistry, University of Saskatchewan Trainer of Bioinformatics; metabolic control theory; regulation of gene expression; protein structure and function; Prairies
Jack Chen Simon Fraser University Biological databases; gene identification; genome annotation; molecular evolution; comparative genomics; functional genomics; transcriptional regulatory network; neuroscience British Columbia
Marcel Turcotte Computer Science, University of Ottawa Automatic discovery of structural motifs; Ontario
Lila Kari Computer Science, University of Western Ontario Biomolecular (DNA) computing; Ontario
Daniel G. Brown Computer Science, University of Waterloo Comparative genomics; algorithms for sequence analysis; evolutionary modeling; gene finding; haplotype inference Ontario
Bin Ma Computer Science, University of Waterloo Bioinformatics, homology search, mass spec Ontario
G. Brian Golding Biology, McMaster University DNA sequence analysis; spontaneous mutation and natural selection; Ontario
Nick Tinker Crop Science Society of America Plant structural and functional genomics; Crop data management and statistical analysis - eg performance trials, molecular diversity, linkage mapping esp. oat and barley. Ontario
John Nash Pathogen genomics Group, Institute of Biological Science, NRC Genomics of bacterial pathogens; comparative genomics; genome sequencing; DNA microarrays; transcript profiling; bioinformatics; perl programming Ontario