The Bioinformatics Matchmaker program matches undergraduate
students to current bioinformatics projects in biology labs.
On one side, there are bioinformatics problems in biology labs that require more time and/or expertise in statistics, computer science, or software development, than is available. On the other, there are many talented undergraduate students who are looking for interesting projects at the intersection of biology, computer science, and statistics. We aim to connect these two groups together, so that undergraduates can be exposed to current research problems by helping graduate students, post-docs, or faculty with their bioinformatics and data analysis needs.
Matches may be for semester or summer work and might also lead to thesis research, depending on the nature of the particular project.
How to apply (students): Please send email to , the Matchmaker Coordinator, that includes:
- Your name
- Field of study and research interests
- Year
- Course list
- Resume
How to submit projects (faculty): Contact the Matchmaker Coordinator, if you have an appropriate bioinformatics project for the Matchmaker Program.
Examples of current projects:- P. falciparum / malaria database / data analysis system
- search for and analysis of the consensus sequences in human genes associated with diseases due to somatic mutations
Bonnie Bassler's and Ned Wingreen's labs:
- analysis of quorum-sensing signaling pathway in Vibrio bacteria
NNN microarray analysis tool: Juan Alvarez, matched with Curtis Huttenhower in Olga Troyanskaya's lab, implemented a web tool for microarray analysis using the Nearest Neighbor Networks (NNN) algorithm.
FIRE: Bambi Tsui (web interface implementation) and Konrad Karczewski (FIRE analysis on S. bayanus data sets), matched with Olivier Elemento in Saeed Tavazoie's lab for work on FIRE, a motif discovery and characterization program based on mutual information.
