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College of Graduate Health Sciences

Integrated Program in Biomedical Sciences

Genetics, Functional Genomics, and Proteomics

David Nelson, Ph.D.

The Genetics, Functional Genomics, and Proteomics Track emphasizes training in the application of methods that are targeted at whole genomes, transcriptomes, proteomes, entire gene families and other large biological data sets. These approaches aim to discover patterns in the regulation, expression and function of genes and proteins by analysis of microarray data, mass spectra of proteins, whole genome sequence comparisons, bioinformatics, quantitative trait mapping (QTL analysis) and various data mining and database integration methods. Mapping and positional cloning of genes responsible for single gene and complex human diseases continues the process of interpreting our genome and forms an important part of this track. An initiative to solve the three dimensional structures for all representative protein folds is considered a part of functional genomics, therefore structural biology also has a place in this track.

* Faculty and Their Research Interests
* Electives
* Students
* Center of Excellence in Genomics and Bioinformatics
* Hartwell Center for Bioinformatics and Biotechnology

Revised 19 July 2006