Bioinformatics Applicants

[fazamal4]

Any bioinfo applicant in the forum ? What is the status so far ?

[bernard]

My research area is bioinformatics, in specific developing computational theories and tools used in genome duplications, evolutionary biology, and structural biology. Bioinformatics is a pretty new area and not many schools even have a bioinformatics department yet. So it seems like we can only enter CS or Bio program for now, and do a interdisciplinary work in the program. What area are you in?

[fazamal4]

I did my masters in CS. My thesis was on bridging the sequence based and expression based estimates of regulation in the gap gene system of Drosophila.

As I can see, you have already been accepted by U Washington. Who is ur potential supervisor ?

[bernard]

In CS department at U Washington, Ruzzo and Tompa are the main profs working on computational molecular biology. If you apply to the CMB interdisciplinary minor within CS, you can even choose supervisors from Genome Science department and Fred Hutchinson Center. I know these two places have done very amazing work. I guess my supervisor will either be Ruzzo or Tompa plus someone from Fred Hutch or GS.