Volker Brendel
Iowa State University

If you want to find out why a bouncy octopus is our group logo, you have come to the right place. In fact, there is a lot of other information on these pages. Please navigate using the links on the left.

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.

This web site will tell you a great deal about our range of interests and our past and current work. It will also point you to resources and opportunities that might be useful and interesting to you. If you are an old friend of these pages (or simply eager and curious), you may follow the links below to get to more interesting stuff right away.

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I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
(Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

AtGDB - An Arabidopsis Genome Browser
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Bioinformatics Tool of the Month
Parallel Computing