Penn State University
Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics


The CCGB is part of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.
Our address is:  501 Wartik Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802.

Mission | Activities | Comparative Genomics of Mammals


In the News

Oct. 2009  –  Wired Science: Your Bug-Coated Windshield Is Lousy With Genomes
July 2009  –  Penn State Live: Why do genes survive on the Y chromosome?
July 2009  –  ECoS News: Secrets revealed about how disease-causing DNA mutations occur.
June 2009  –  "Lab Reunion" article in Genome Technology about Hardison Lab:  Data is Truth.
May 2009  –  Schuster and Miller were selected for TIME Magazine's "100 Most Influential People" of 2009 for their work in paleogenomics.
Jan. 2009  –  Hair of Tasmanian Tiger yields genes of extinct species: the Tasmanian Tiger Sequencing Project.
Dec. 2008  –  Evolution of gene regulation: Motif constraint in enhancers.
Nov. 2008  –  Scientists sequence woolly-mammoth genome: the Mammoth Genome Project.
Jan. 2008  –  ECoS News: Scientists explore factors contributing to DNA mutations.
Jan. 2008  –  Penn State Live: Probing Question: What is metagenomics?
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Research Groups

Carrel Lab | Chiaromonte Lab | Ghosh Lab | Hardison Lab | Lesk Lab | Makova Lab | Miller Lab | Nekrutenko Lab | Pugh Lab | Schuster Lab | Zhang Lab

Projects

 –  Metaserver for integrative analysis of genomic data
 –  Our customization of the UCSC Genome Browser; an interactive browser for annotated genome sequences and genomic data from PSU labs
 –  Database of human hemoglobin variants and thalassemias
 –  Connects phenotype and clinical data in locus-specific databases with genome-wide annotations

 –  Pairwise and multiple alignments of user-submitted DNA sequences
 –  Retrieve data from the UCSC Genome Browser in a format suitable for further processing by PipMaker and MultiPipMaker
 –  Dynamic multi-sequence alignment and visualization
 –  Dynamic blastz alignment visualization

 –  Regulatory potential based on conservation, composition, and short-pattern structure (see also ESPERR)
 –  Method for learning discriminative signals from multiple alignments

 –  Database of experimental results on gene expression
 –  Visualization tools for bacterial genome alignments

Resources

Schedule for Lab Meetings and Seminars
Course Materials
Links to Related Sites
Local Access Page


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