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Bioinformatics
|MPhil/PhD
|Part Time, Full Time
RESEARCH PROFILE
- Current number of academic staff: 52, with six in the Algorithms and Bioinformatics group, and numerous collaborators elsewhere in the College.
- Current number of research students: 4.
- Recent publications
- Population-based local search for protein folding simulation in the MJ energy model and cubic lattices;
- A fast and efficient algorithm for mapping short sequences to a reference genome;
- A hybrid approach to protein folding problem integrating constraint programming with local search;
- Module detection in complex networks using integer optimisation; Transcriptome map of mouse isochores.
- Current research projects:
- Biological network inference and classification;
- Genome sequence analysis and annotation;
- Normalisation algorithms for microarry data;
- Protein-protein interaction networks.
- Partner organisations:
- EBI (Cambridge),
- NIMR (London),
- UCL (London).
KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Head of Department: Professor Michael Luck; Head of Algorithms & Bioinformatics Group: Professor Costas Iliopoulos
Awarding institution
King's College London
Duration
PhD three years FT, six years PT.
Location
Strand Campus, Guy's Campus.
Student destinations
Graduates in the area of bioinformatics follow either an academic career path, working in institutes or universities, or an industrial career path, working in pharmaceutical companies or biotechnology start-ups.
Year of entry 2013
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