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The structural bioinformatics group is led by Professor Lenore J. Cowen and is part of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Group in the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University. We hold weekly joint group meeting with Professor Slonim's research group: information is here.

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Seminar Series a sponsored by the Tufts School of Engineering

Our group's main research focus is on protein structural motif recognition, structural alignment, and extending protein structure prediction for beta-structural proteins into the so-called "twighlight-zone" of low-sequence homology.

We are also interested in computational molecular biology problems in general, broadening beyond structural bioinformatics to functional prediction, protein-protein interaction networks, and analysis of high dimensional microarray datasets.

Recent group news:

Our paper A.V. McDonnell, M. Menke, N. Palmer, J. King, L. Cowen, B. Berger, "Prediction and comparative modeling of sequences directing beta-sheet proteins by profile wrapping" was co-awarded Best Structural Poster at RECOMB 2005 This work has been accepted to the journal Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics.

NSF funds ITR

Congratuations to group alumnus Emily Mower who has won an NSF graduate fellowship.