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Bioinformatics: The Hot Zone for Vaccine Discovery Research

Bioinformatics: The Hot Zone for Vaccine Discovery Research

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

The New York Academy of Sciences

Presented By

Presented by the Microbiology Section

 

Speaker: Robert Zagursky, Wyeth Vaccines Research

Since the report of the first complete genomic sequence of a living organism, bioinformatics has been the central tool for genomic analysis, such as predicting genes, their associated function and cellular location, and how regulated. There have been many algorithms developed that facilitate these bioinformatic analyses, and for the most part yield accurate predictions. However, there are instances where the predictions seem to diverge from common dogma. In these cases, biological data are needed to support or refute the in silico predictions. I will present an overview of the algorithms we have applied in the discovery of vaccine targets of bacterial pathogens and show examples where bioinformatic predictions and biology have collided.