Recent News
- Registration for the UT-ORNL-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit 2008 is now open.
- Spring 2008 lab meetings: Fridays 1:00 pm Access Grid Room, 2nd Floor Vogt
- Spring 2008 Bioinformatics Journal Club: Wednesdays, 4:00pm in Access Grid Room
- Christy Bogard and Joe Morris awarded 3rd place and 4th place, at the 2007 Kentucky Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Computer and Information Sciences Section.
University of Louisville Bioinformatics Laboratory
About Us
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The University of Louisville's Bioinformatics Laboratory, directed by Dr. Eric C. Rouchka, D.Sc., was founded in the summer of 2003 as a partnership between the University of Louisville Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science and the Kentucky Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (KBRIN). KBRIN funds (NIH NCRR Grant P20 RR016481) were instrumental in obtaining a 16-node, 32-CPU Dual AMD 2800MP Beowulf Cluster for bioinformatics applications connected directly to workstations in the bioinformatics lab via a 1GB switch. |
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Mission
The mission of the University of Louisville Bioinformatics Laboratory is threefold:- Further advance the interdisciplinary field of bioinformatics by conducting internationally recognized bioinformatics research in the broad areas of DNA and protein sequence analysis.
- Provide graduate-level bioinformatics educational training to produce graduates competitive at the regional, national, and international levels.
- Contribute to the bioinformatics growth in the Commonwealth of Kentucky through active participation in the Kentucky Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (KBRIN) and the Kentucky Academy of Sciences (KAS).
Current Research Interests
The primary areas of interest for the bioinformatics lab are:- Computational analysis of gene regulatory regions
- Variability and tissue specificity of gene products
- Detection and classification of non-functional pseudogenes
- DNA computing for enhanced security
- High throughput bioinformatics computation using general purpose graphics processor units (GPGPUs)