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The Graduate Group established the Designated Emphasis (DE) in Computational and Genomic Biology to provide specialized multi-disciplinary training and research opportunities in the different facets of computational biology and genomics. The DE is a specialization offered by existing PhD programs, which we refer to as Associated Programs. At UC Berkeley, acquiring a DE is like earning a “minor” with a PhD degree. How does a graduate student acquire a Designated Emphasis (DE) in Computational and Genomic Biology? |
Kimmen Sjölander's research interests in computational
biology fall within the broad area of protein superfamily and genome evolution
to include: phylogenetic reconstruction of protein superfamily evolution, phylogenomic
inference of gene function, multiple sequence alignment, protein structure prediction,
active site detection, pathway reconstruction, horizontal gene transfer, metagenomic
data analysis, and so on. She uses tools from Bayesian probability and information
theory to construct new methods for these tasks, and works in collaboration with
experimental biologists for targeted studies. The PhyloFacts Phylogenomic database
contains over 20,000 protein superfamilies with phylogenetic trees, predicted
structures, alignments, experimental and annotation data, and more.
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