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 |
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| Adnan Ali | Department of Biological Sciences, University of Windsor | Computational methods for optimization and interpretation of statistical data gained from the microarray experiments. | Ontario |
| Allen Delaney | Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre | Analysis of High Throughput Data and Pathway Modeling | British Columbia |
| Alma Barranco-Mendoza | Trinity Western University | Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Bioinformatics, Multidisciplinary medical decision support and profiling systems, Biomedical data mining, Biomedical knowledge representation, Bioethics. | British Columbia |
| Andrew Roger | Dalhousie Univeristy, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; | Molecular phylogenetics; comparative genomics; evolution of protistan genomes, | Atlantic |
| Anne Bergeron | Lacim et D | Algorithms in computational biology | Quebec |
| Anne Condon | Computer Science, UBC | Design and analysis of algorithms; biomolecular computation; RNA secondary structure prediction | British Columbia |
| Anoop Sarkar | Computing Science - SFU | Application of probabilistic language modeling techniques to various problems in bioinformatics | British Columbia |
| Ante L. Padjen | Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University | Drug discovery; Target validation; Systems biology; Neuroinformatics; | Quebec |
| Anthony Bonner | Computer Science, University of Toronto | artificial intelligence; data mining; machine learning; gene function prediction; inferring gene networks; tandem mass spectrometry; genome mapping; database systems | Ontario |
| 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 |
| Artem Cherkasov | Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia | Development of bioinformatics and genomics tools; | British Columbia |
| Arvind Gupta | Computer Science, SFU | Computational phylogeny, combinatorial algorithms especially as they relate to bioinformatics. | British Columbia |
| B. Franz Lang | Biochimie, Universit | comparative and evolutionary genomics; comparative modelling of RNAs; genome assembly and annotation; databases and workbenches; molecular phylogenetics; | Quebec |
| Bin Ma | Computer Science, University of Waterloo | Bioinformatics, homology search, mass spec | Ontario |
| 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 |
| Boris Steipe | Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto | Bioinformatics; protein engineering; motifs in protein structure | Ontario |
| Brad McNeney | Dept. of Statatistics and Actuarial Sci. - SFU | Biostatistics and computational molecular biology. | British Columbia |
| Brendan J. Frey | University of Toronto | Machine learning and generative models applied to problems in molecular biology, specifically transcription, alternative splicing, regulation of transcription and splicing, and systems biology. | Ontario |
| Brendan McConkey | Department of Biology - University of Waterloo | proteomics; protein structure and interaction modeling; Differential in-gel electrophoresis; mass spectrometry; protein expression pattern analysis; | Ontario |
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| Brian Fristensky | Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba | DNA sequence analysis software; gene array analysis; | Prairies |
| Carol Cass | Department of Oncology, University of Alberta | Membrane biology; nucleoside transport; nucleotide metabolism; cancer chemotherapy; tumor bioprofiling | Prairies |
| Celia Greenwood | Hospital for Sick Children | Genetic epidemiology; microarray analysis | Ontario |
| Cenk Sahinalp | Computer Science, SFU | combinatorial algorithms, biomolecular sequence databases, search and alignment, phylogenetic analysis of large scale genome rearrangements, RNA structure prediction, molecular interaction and evolution. | British Columbia |
| Chris Farnet | Ecopia Biosciences, Inc. | Genomics of microbial secondary metabolism; natural product drug discovery and development; | Quebec |
