The Group

What's New


Group:

We have moved from Iowa State University (Ames, IA) to Indiana University (Bloomington, IN). Thank you ISU for providing a home for almost 14 years. Part of the group will continue at ISU for now, while new folks will join our efforts at IUB. Collaborations will flourish beyond that with our many valued colleagues and friends in Ames. Onward!

Recent publications:

Standage, D.S. & Brendel, V.P. (2012) ParsEval: parallel comparison and analysis of gene structure annotations. BMC Bioinformatics 13, 187. [PubMed ID: 22852583] [online article] [PDF]

Doyle, E.L., Booher, N.J., Standage, D.S., Voytas, D.F., Brendel, V.P., VanDyk, J.K. & Bogdanove, A.J. (2012) TAL Effector-Nucleotide Targeter (TALE-NT) 2.0: tools for TAL effector design and target prediction. Nucl. Acids Res., 2012; doi: 10.1093/nar/gks608. [PubMed ID: 22693217] [online article] [PDF]

PlantGDB News:

plantgdb.org has moved to our new server at IU on Monday, July 23!

Graduate Students



(in order of seniority)


Hsien-chao Chou. Home town: Taoyuan, Taiwan. Previous Degrees: BS in Information Management, 1997, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. @ ISU since 2008, in Brendel Group since 2009. Graduate Program: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Ph.D.). @ ISU since 2008, in Brendel Group since 2009. Research interests: Gene annotation using next generation sequencing.
Krishnakumar Sridharan. Home town: Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. Previous Degrees: B.Tech in Bioinformatics, 2008, SASTRA University, Tamilnadu, India. Graduate Program: Interdepartmental Genetics (Ph.D.). @ ISU since 2008, in Brendel Group since 2009. Research interests: Predicting and Mapping Transcription Start Sites in plant genomes.
Your Picture Daniel Standage. Home town: Augusta, Georgia, USA. BS in Bioinformatics, 2010, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. Graduate Program: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Ph.D.). Rotation Dates: August - October. Research interests: Genome annotation/informatics. Rotation Project: Annotation of the grape genome, evaluation of the CpGAT genome annotation pipeline, automation of comparison between two sets of gene/genome annotations.