Computational biology and bioinformatics are areas that are becoming of increasing importance for all areas of modern biology. Research interests of bioinformaticists in the School include DNA and protein sequence analysis, comparative genomic analysis, systems analysis and structure analysis, and prediction.
Faculty in this focus area
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Mark Borodovsky
Regents' Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering -
Sam Brown
Professor -
Leonid Bunimovich
Regents' Professor of Mathematics -
Yuhong Fan
Associate Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Scholar -
Greg Gibson
Regents Professor, Tom and Marie Patton Chair in Biological Sciences, Director of the Center for Integrative Genomics, and member of the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience -
Brian Hammer
Associate Professor -
Saumya Jain
Assistant Professor -
King Jordan
Professor and Director, Bioinformatics Graduate Program -
Kostas Konstantinidis
Assistant Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering -
Joel Kostka
Professor and Associate Chair of Research -
Joe Lachance
Associate Professor and Director, GAANN Training Grant -
Abigail Lind
Assistant Professor -
John McDonald
Professor -
Patrick McGrath
Associate Professor -
Farzaneh Najafi
Assistant Professor -
William Ratcliff
Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences -
Robbie Richards
Academic Professional -
Jeffrey Skolnick
Regents' Professor; Mary and Maisie Gibson Chair & GRA Eminent Scholar in Computational Systems Biology -
Lauren Speare
Assistant Professor -
Alberto Stolfi
Assistant Professor -
Francesca Storici
Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Education -
Matthew Torres
Associate Professor -
Eberhard Voit
Professor, David D. Flanagan Chair, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Systems Biology -
Emily Weigel
Senior Academic Professional -
Joshua Weitz
Professor and Tom and Marie Patton Chair in Biological Sciences, Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences, and Blaise Pascal International Chair of Excellence at the Ecole Normale Superieure
