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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anoop Sarkar | Computing Science - Simon Fraser University | Application of probabilistic language modeling techniques to various problems in bioinformatics | British Columbia |
| David Baillie | Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SFU; holder of a Canadian Research Chair in Genomics. | Comparative genomics; expression analysis; pathogenomics; ecogenomics; envirogenomics | British Columbia |
| Ryan Brinkman | Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer Research Centre | Drug target identification Flow Cytometry Bioinformatics | British Columbia |
| Anne Condon | Computer Science, UBC | Design and analysis of algorithms; biomolecular computation; RNA secondary structure prediction | British Columbia |
| Allen Delaney | Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre | Analysis of High Throughput Data and Pathway Modeling | British Columbia |
| Arvind Gupta | Computer Science, SFU | Computational phylogeny, combinatorial algorithms especially as they relate to bioinformatics. | British Columbia |
| Bob Hancock | Microbiology and Immunology, UBC | Analysis of regulatory networks in innate immunity in human cells; Genome annotation; array studies of human cells and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, fungal, human and mouse genes; identification of novel targets for antibiotic intervention | British Columbia |
| Phil Hieter | Michael Smith Laboratories, UBC | Comparative genomics; sage | British Columbia |
| Holger Hoos | Computer Science, UBC | Combinatorial problems; AI; gene identification; sequence analysis | British Columbia |
| Miguel Andrade | Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine | DNA microarray data analysis; data and text mining; genomics; protein sequence analysis | |
| Steven Jones | Genome Sciences Centre | Large scale sequencing and physical mapping; sequence anlysis; Gene regulation | British Columbia |
| Marco Marra | Genome Sciences Centre | Large scale sequencing and physical mappingl comparative genomics; regulation of transcription | British Columbia |
| Dixie Mager | Terry Fox-UBC | Comparative genomics of multigene families; distribution and functions of mammalian retroelements; molecular evolution; epigenetics, endogenous retroviruses, immunogenetics | British Columbia |
| Raymond Ng | Computer Science, UBC | Large scale data mining; health informatics problems; high dimensionality with small smaple sizes; data quality and robustness; parallel and high performance computing | British Columbia |
| Francis Ouellette | Ontario Institute of Cancer Research | Integrating biological databases;gene identification; genome annotation; comparative genomics and proteomics; cancer genomics; | Ontario |
