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2009 Scientific Annual Report
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July 19, 2009
2009 Scientific Annual Report
2009 Scientific Annual Report

BLACKSBURG, Va., July 20, 2009 – The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech has released its fifth scientific annual report (2009). The scientific annual report is intended to highlight the latest accomplishments of the Institute’s scientists in the fiscal year. Researchers at VBI are engaged in a wide range of transdisciplinary research projects that bring together diverse disciplines such as mathematics, computer science, biology, plant pathology, biochemistry, systems biology, statistics, economics and synthetic biology. As the research highlighted in the report shows, VBI scientific advances impact the transformation of scientific knowledge into tools, technologies, and solutions for the life sciences and are helping to broaden understanding of the natural world.

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Table of Contents and Director's Report

Research Reports from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Christopher L. Barrett
The Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory

Josep Bassaganya-Riera
Development of Novel Approaches for Preventing Inflammation in Infectious and Chronic Diseases

Allan W. Dickerman
Phylogenomics and Systems Biology of Plants and Plant Pathogens

Ina Hoeschele
Genetic Architecture of Complex Diseases

Reinhard Laubenbacher
Computational Systems Biology

Christopher B. Lawrence
Alternaria Pathogenomics

Iuliana M. Lazar
Fast Proteomic Fingerprinting in Cancerous Cells

Pedro Mendes
Software, Standards and Methods for Computational Systems Biology

Biswarup Mukhopadhyay
Redox Biology of Methanogenic Archaea and Mycobacteria, Microbial Gasification of Coal and PEPCK Mechanism

Jean Peccoud
Genetic Design Automation

Andy Pereira
Gene Interaction Networks for Functional Analysis of Complex Biological Processes

João Carlos Setubal
Bacterial Genomics and Bioinformatics

Vladimir Shulaev
Metabolomics for Systems Biology

Bruno W.S. Sobral
Cyberinfrastructure for Infectious Diseases

Brett Tyler
Plant-Pathogen Interactions: From Genome Sequences to Genetic Networks

Research Report from the VBI's Faculty Fellow
John J. Tyson
Deterministic and Stochastic Models of Cell Cycle Regulation in Budding Yeast

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