Wilkerson, M.D., Ru, Y., and Brendel, V.P. (2009) Common introns within orthologous genes: software and application to plants Briefings in Bioinformatics, 10(6), 631-644. [abstract] [PDF]
PlantGDB News:Community-annotated maize gene models (see an example at ZmGDB) are now displayed at both MaizeGDB and maizesequence.org, by means of Distributed Annotation Service (DAS) (November 21, 2009).
Brachypodium distachyon browser: BdGDB, a genome browser for the model grass species Brachypodium distachyon, is now available, based on the JGI v1.0 8x genome assembly. The assembly displayed comprises 271.15 Mb arranged in 5 pseudochromosomes. Display includes gene models, splice-aligned EST, cDNA, PUT assembly and Arabidopsis and rice predicted proteins (October 30, 2009).
Volker Brendel
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Volker Brendel
Narrative
Volker Brendel is the Bergdahl Professor of Bioinformatics at Iowa State University.
He received his M.Sc. degree in Applied Statistics from the University of Oxford, UK, in 1981
and his Ph.D in Life Sciences from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, in 1986.
Prior to joining the Iowa State University faculty in 1998, Dr. Brendel was at Stanford University, CA,
as postdoctoral associate, research associate and lecturer.
Dr. Brendel's research interest span molecular biology, statistical modeling, and algorithm
development, with applications in the field of genome informatics.
Several software applications from his group are in wide use, including programs for gene
structure prediction and sequence comparisons
(http://brendelgroup.org/bioinformatics2go/).
His group has also been involved in the development and implementation of databases and
web resources for genetic and genomic data, in particular for maize
(www.maizegdb.org) and other plants
(www.plantgdb.org).
Degrees and Appointments
Bergdahl Professor of Bioinformatics, 2002-present,
Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
(formerly Department of Zoology & Genetics),
Department of Statistics (courtesy appointment),
Iowa State University, Iowa, U.S.A.
Chair, Interdepartmental Graduate Program in
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Aug. 2009 - present
Professor, 2001-present,
Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
(formerly Department of Zoology & Genetics),
Department of Statistics (courtesy appointment),
Iowa State University, Iowa, U.S.A.
Associate Professor, 1998-2000,
Department of Zoology & Genetics,
Iowa State University, Iowa, U.S.A.
Research Associate (and [part-time] Lecturer in Mathematics), 1989-1998,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University, California, U.S.A.
Postdoctoral Associate in bioinformatics, 1987-1988,
Advisor: Samuel Karlin,
Stanford University, California, U.S.A.
Ph.D. Life Sciences, 1986,
Advisor: Edward Trifonov,
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
M.Sc. Applied Statistics, 1981,
University of Oxford, UK
(undergraduate) Mathematics and Biology, 1976-1979,
Christian Albrechts Universität Kiel, Germany