J. Douglas Armstrong

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Bioinformatics at Edinburgh

• J. Douglas Armstrong
• Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation,
• School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

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Bioinformatics

• Biological databases (anatomy, gene expression)
• Database integration
• Data provenance
• Evolutionary and genetic computation
• High performance data structures for
  semi-structured data (Vectorised XML)
• Machine learning
• Microarray data analysis
• Natural language and bio-text mining
• Neural computation, visualisation and simulation
• Systems Biology (protein complexes)
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BRAINWAVE

• J. Douglas Armstrong
• David barber
• R. Wayne Davies

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Currently developing Machine Learning tools to
de-skill data analysis
GABA
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Bioinformatics Training

• Masters Training Programme in Bioinformatics
• The first UK programme aimed at Computing
  students
• 20 students per year
• Audited by Commercial partners
• New Programmes (2004/5)
• Systems Biology
• E-Science and Grid Technologies
• Analytical and Scientific Databases