Andrew V. McDonnell

I have recently completed a masters degree in computer science in the Computer Science Department here at Tufts University. My thesis was entitled ""Predicting the Structure of the Beta-Helix Protein Motif", in which I developed and implemented a wrap-and-pack method for increasing the sensitivity of an existing beta-helix motif recognition tool, Betawrap. The method also produces three-dimensional structure predictions for a section of the putative helix.

I am currently working with Bonnie Berger's group, developing further improvements to Betawrap and working on other projects.

• Research Activities:
  • Working with Prof. Lenore Cowen on my masters thesis, dealing with protein structure prediction.
  • Some links, mainly useful to me.

• Teaching Activities:
  • Most Recent:
    • TA for Programming Languages, comp 80.
  • Less Recent:
    • TA and grader for Introduction to Computer Science, comp 11.
    • TA for Decision Theory and Artificial Intelligence, comp 132.
• Other:
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  • Upcoming things to do around Boston: mainly to remind me what I want to do, but you can look too.

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