Acknowledgements
The Bioinformatics Program Website
This website was developed by Sean Anderson, Steve Cannon, Mayen Effiong, Jeff Lande, Vicky Wangia and Lynda Ellis over Winter break, 2001-2. Steve Cannon created the program logo , which he describes:
The tree shows phylogenetic relationships between a small portion of the "nucleotide binding site, leucine-rich-repeat" plant disease resistance genes from six plant species. These genes are important in helping all plants fend off disease. Dark triangles are predicted genes from Medicago truncatula; open triangles are from Medicago sativa (alfalfa); blue open triangle is from pea; dark circles are from soybean; and the lighter circles are from common bean and pigeon pea. By plotting both species and gene trees together, we can better identify possible orthologs, and can help determine the pace of evolution of these genes relative to speciation events.
In 2006, the website started being hosted by and was redesigned by the Department of Computer Science, under the direction of Dr. Vipin Kumar. Thanks, Computer Science!
The Bioinformatics Graduate Program
This Graduate Program would not be possible without the support of its Graduate Faculty and Staff. It has also received support from others, many of which are listed here.
U of M Departments and Divisions
- Agronomy and Plant Genetics
- Animal Science
- Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
- Biostatistics
- Computer Science & Engineering
- Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
- Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
- Mathematics
- Pharmacology
- Plant Biology
- Plant Pathology
U of M Schools and Colleges
U of M Graduate Programs
- Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
- Computer Science and Engineering
- Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
- Health Informatics
- Joint Degree Program in Law, Health and the Life Sciences
- Mathematics
- Microbial Engineering
- Molecular Veterinary Biosciences
- Pharmacology
U of M Centers and Institutes
- The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Transposon Research
- Biomedical Genomics Center
- Cancer Center
- Center for Biomedical Research Informatics
- Center for Immunology
- Center for Microbial and Plant Genomics
- Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment and the Life Sciences
- Institute for Human Genetics
- Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications
- Lillihei Heart Institute
- Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation








