Welcome to Bioinformatics Research Group
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“Setting up of Bioinformatics Research at the Department of Biosciences, COMSAT Institute of Information Technology”
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“Comparative Computer Analysis of Promoter Architecture and Expression Patterns of Plant Genes” (under NRPU; approved by HEC on June 04).
Main objectives of our research activity:
Creating a large plant-specific collection of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) promoters, studying their statistically significant characteristics and developing a novel computer tools for plant promoter prediction;
Creating plant-specific collections of genes with similar expression pattern and/or related to the same metabolic pathway or functional protein complex and developing computer tool for the identification of gene groups with similar expression patterns;
Development of Computer Tools for Prediction of Transcription Termination Regions in eukaryotic genomes;
Analyzing organization and expression characteristics of genes in higher plant genomes ( Arabidopsis , rice, Populus , grapevine, etc.);