Sparks, M.E. & Brendel, V. (2008) MetWAMer: eukaryotic translation initiation site prediction. BMC Bioinformatics, 9, 381. [abstract] [PDF]
Lushbough, C., Bergman, M.K., Lawrence, C.J., Jennewein, D. & Brendel, V. (2008) BioExtract Server - an integrated workflow-enabling system to access and analyze heterogeneous, distributed biomolecular data. IEEE Transactions Comp. Biol. Bioinformatics, preprint, Sept. 11, 2008, doi:10.1109/TCBB.2008.98.
Wang BB, O'Toole M, Brendel V, Young ND (2008) Cross-species EST alignments reveal novel and conserved alternative splicing events in legumes. BMC Plant Biol. 8:17. PMID: 18282305 [May 2008]
PlantGDB News:Plant sequence from GenBank Release 167 (August 2008) has been uploaded to PlantGDB.org. Ten new transcript assemblies are available.
PlantGDB.org has added a powerful new search feature for batch sequence retrieval. Try it out using the Arabidopsis thaliana genome browser, AtGDB!
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If you are new to these pages, and particularly if you got here by a surfing accident, Volker Brendel is the Bergdahl Professor of Bioinformatics at Iowa State University. His responsibilities include research and teaching.
The Brendel Group is an energetic, friendly, and grateful team of faculty, staff, and students enjoying the privilege of working together. Our areas of interest span research topics in genome informatics, in particular as related to plant transcriptional control and pre-mRNA splicing, and computational infrastructure (cyberinfrastructure) for genome studies. You can find out more about our research, software development, and Prof. Brendel's teaching following the links on the top navigation bar.
In addition to Volker Brendel, Professor, the group currently consists of four staff scientists, one postdoctoral associate, and three graduate students.
Many alumni have moved on, but are still very much part of the family. Our international network of collaborators brings complementary expertise to the team.
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Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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