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Biological systems are quintessentially complex.  To understand the genetic variation that leads to disease susceptibility or drug/vaccine response, this complexity must be reflected in the corresponding mathematical and computational models.  We are developing computational and mathematical methods that integrate biological data from different dimensional and temporal scales in order to tackle (1) the identification of gene-gene and gene-environment interactions that influence disease susceptibility in genome-wide data; (2) the discovery of interaction networks from noisy dynamic and static expression and genotypic data; (3) statistical clustering of expression data; (4) information theoretic methods to assess cluster quality with respect to known biological pathways; and (5) computational protein-protein docking.  We are particularly interested in applications of these methods to neural and immunological systems. 

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  • Open Positions in McKinneyLab Post-doc (Bioinformatics, Statistical Genetics, Machine Learning)Graduate Student (Modeling of biological time series)
    Posted Nov 23, 2009 8:51 AM by Brett McKinney
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  CONTACT
Brett McKinney, Ph.D.
Warren Chair in Bioinformatics
Mathematical and Computer Sciences
University of Tulsa
800 S. Tucker Drive
Tulsa, Oklahoma  74104
Dept:  (918) 631-2228
Fax:    (918) 631-3077
E-mail: brett.mckinney@gmail.com

LOCATION
Keplinger Hall U348