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Undergraduate Research Opportunities

Analysing the universal proteome is a big job, and we are always interested in working with bright new researchers with a passion for computational biology, a desire to see their work be used by thousands of academics, and interested in the possibility of novel discovery. If you are interested in embarking on a project with our laboratory, and have a strong background in either computer science, genetics, biochemistry, cellular biology, mathematics, or statistics, please contact us. A number of available projects are listed below, but we are open to alternative, well considered proposals.

Phylofacts Portal Development
(requires html,php,javascript familarity, in some cases AJAX and Java experience)
* cytoscape integration
* synteny viewer
* tree/graph viewer
* AJAX integration
* CSA alignment highlighting
* graphics/web design/UI

Phylofacts Analysis
(expertise in either cs,statistics,biochemistry,mathematics,genetics)
* machine learning integration
* statistical methods development
* Large-scale enzyme analysis
* daemon development
* annotation error detection/QA development
* phenotype-process association

Protein Analysis
(significant biological background)
* Manual curation of families
* Annotation error analysis

Methods development
(significant biological background)
* allelic variant impact analysis
* alternative splicing analysis
* critical site detection
* enzyme specificity detection
* pathway prediction