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Graduate Minor in Bioinformatics at the University of Minnesota
Lynda B.M. Ellis
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
The University of Minnesota Graduate Program in Bioinformatics (http://www.binf.umn.edu/) offers Graduate Minors at the Masters and PhD level and includes 16 faculty members from 12 departments in 5 schools.
A two-day symposium with world-renown speakers, exhibits, a poster session, and a lunch hosted by the Graduate Faculty, is one of its activities.
The Bioinformatics Journal Club (BINF 5480) is offered every Fall and Spring.
A public, moderated Bioinformatics email list, open to all, now has over 210 subscribers, a searchable message archive, and receives over 30 posts a month.
Since the Graduate Program began in 2002, 37 students with 13 different majors have enrolled in the minor; 31 have graduated with it.
The Graduate Program's present curriculum, administration, and structure will be presented and plans for development will be outlined.
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Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
Supercomputing Institute User Support Team
The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute is an interdisciplinary
research program of the University of Minnesota. The Institute has
many state-of-the-art high-performance supercomputers, six computing
labs on the Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses, more than 400 software
packages, and a user support team to support scientific
supercomputing including bioinformatics, computational genomics,
proteomics, and structural biology research as well as database and
application development.
Computational biology and bioinformatics support at MSI spans many
research fields including sequence analysis (e.g., Roche/454's
new-generation DNA sequencing method), microarray data analysis,
proteomics, structural modeling, and drug discovery. Support is provided
directly through involvement with research groups or by teaming up with
core facilities such as the Biomedical Genomics Center and the Center for
Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics for high-throughput biological data
generation, analysis, and distribution. The MSI Application Software
Development Group develops a variety of software and databases for user
needs, sponsored projects, and internal use. An example of such applications
is The Research Optimizer for Project Information eXchange, TROPIX, which
seeks to create a new way for researchers at the University of Minnesota
and the Mayo Clinic to easily capture and share data collected from core
experimental facilities at both sites. Tropix uses caGrid tools to achieve
some of its goals.
Please contact the Institute's user support staff to discuss your needs,
projects, databases, and software requirements. For more information, please
check the Institute's website at
http://www.msi.umn.edu/
  
Page Author(s): Jeff Lande, Lynda Ellis
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