Computational Biology Group - Bioinformatics

The primary contact for work on bioinformatics within the Computing Laboratory is Peter Jeavons, who teaches a one-week module on Algorithm Design and Complexity for Bioinformatics (part of the Oxford MSc Course in Bioinformatics).

He is currently working closely with the Bacterial Pathogenesis and Functional Genomics Group led by Dr Nigel Saunders in the Dunn School of Pathology, on computational approaches to gene regulation in bacteria. This work was initially supported by a Discipline-Hopping grant from the MRC.

Software

A number of different software packages for bioinformatics tasks, developed by members of the Computational Biology Group and students, are available for download here.

Journal Publications

• Automatic analysis of agarose gel images
  P.S.U. Adiga, A. Bhomra, M.G. Turri, A. Nicod, S.R. Datta, P. Jeavons, R. Mott, J. Flint
  Appears in: Bioinformatics 17, (2001), pp. 1084-1090
• Characterization of the putative operon containing arylamine N-acetyltransferase (nat) in Mycobacterium bovis BCG
  M. Anderton, S. Bhakta, G. Besra, P. Jeavons, L. Eltis, E. Sim
  Appears in: Molecular Microbiology 59, (2006), pp. 181-192
• Enhancing the prediction of transcription factor binding sites by incorporating structural properties and nucleotide covariations
  S. Gunewardena, P. Jeavons, Z. Zhang
  Appears in: Journal of Computational Biology 13, (2006), pp. 929-945

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