Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Computational biology and bioinformatics are areas that are becoming of increasing importance for all areas of modern biology. Research interests of bioinformaticists in the School include DNA and protein sequence analysis, comparative genomic analysis, systems analysis and structure analysis, and prediction.

Faculty in this focus area

  • Mark Borodovsky

    Mark Borodovsky
    Regents' Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering

  • Sam Brown

    Sam Brown
    Professor

  • Leonid Bunimovich

    Leonid Bunimovich
    Regents' Professor of Mathematics

  • Yuhong Fan

    Yuhong Fan
    Associate Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Scholar

  • Greg Gibson

    Greg Gibson
    Regents Professor, Tom and Marie Patton Chair in Biological Sciences, Director of the Center for Integrative Genomics, and member of the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience

  • Brian Hammer

    Brian Hammer
    Associate Professor

  • King Jordan

    King Jordan
    Professor and Director, Bioinformatics Graduate Program

  • Kostas Konstantinidis

    Kostas Konstantinidis
    Assistant Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Joel Kostka

    Joel Kostka
    Professor and Associate Chair of Research

  • Joe Lachance

    Joe Lachance
    Associate Professor and Director, GAANN Training Grant

  • John McDonald

    John McDonald
    Professor

  • Patrick McGrath

    Patrick McGrath
    Associate Professor

  • Farzaneh Najafi

    Farzaneh Najafi
    Assistant Professor

  • William Ratcliff

    William Ratcliff
    Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences

  • Jeffrey Skolnick

    Jeffrey Skolnick
    Regents' Professor; Mary and Maisie Gibson Chair & GRA Eminent Scholar in Computational Systems Biology

  • Alberto Stolfi

    Alberto Stolfi
    Assistant Professor

  • Francesca Storici

    Francesca Storici
    Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Education

  • Matthew Torres

    Matthew Torres
    Associate Professor

  • Eberhard Voit

    Eberhard Voit
    Professor, David D. Flanagan Chair, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Systems Biology

  • Emily Weigel

    Emily Weigel
    Senior Academic Professional

  • Joshua Weitz

    Joshua Weitz
    Professor and Tom and Marie Patton Chair in Biological Sciences, Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences, and Blaise Pascal International Chair of Excellence at the Ecole Normale Superieure