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

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  –  Penn State Live: Probing Question: What is metagenomics?
Nov. 2007  –  The CCGB was featured on a public radio program from The DNA Files.

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

 –  Database of experimental results on gene expression
 –  Visualization tools for bacterial genome alignments
 –  Genome alignment and annotation database
 –  Metaserver for integrative analysis of genomic data
 –  Database of human hemoglobin variants and thalassemias
 –  Dynamic multi-sequence alignment and visualization
 –  Connects phenotype and clinical data in locus-specific databases with the UCSC Genome Browser
 –  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
 –  Regulatory potential based on conservation, composition, and short-pattern structure (see also ESPERR)
 –  Method for learning discriminative signals from multiple alignments
 –  Interactive browser for annotated genome sequences of human and other organisms
 –  Dynamic blastz alignment visualization

Resources

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


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