Areas of Research. The Bioinformatics Laboratory (BL) invents new computational methods to help answer research questions in domains such as medicine, agriculture, and exercise physiology.  The BL activities involve five faculty from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and include research projects in many areas of computational bioscience, including computational regulatory genomics, functional genomics, proteomics, image analysis, data mining, algorithm design and analysis, genetic algorithms and genetic simulators.  

Collaborating Faculty and Institutions. Faculty in other units at Ohio University (such as the Edison Biotechnology Institute, the Genomics Facility, the Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, the Department of Biomedical Sciences, the Biomedical Engineering Program, the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and the Department of Biological Sciences) work with the BL to solve life sciences research problems.  The BL also collaborates with individuals at numerous organizations, including the National Human Genome Research Institute, the Air Force Research Lab, Ohio State University, the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, the Ohio Supercomputer Center, Harvard University, Bowling Green State University, University of Kentucky, and Vanderbilt University. 

Resources. The BL provides state-of-the-art computational resources, featuring a 5-node cluster computer that has on each node 32GB RAM, 8 cores, 2TB hard disk space (a RAID5 array) and a dual-channel, gigabit ethernet.  Staff support is provided for maintenance and upgrades for the cluster computer.

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