Alex Kozik

Lab member

2000-present

Education

1995 Ph.D. Genetics Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands

1987 M.S. Chemistry St. Petersburg State University, Russia

Research Topic

Bioinformatics, genome data visualization and comparison, high-throughput data analysis and management, database design, and software development. Search for common sense in modern science.

Research Summary

Despite the fact that bioinformatics has been one of the fastest growing sectors in biology, there is still a lot of work to be done. Because of the absence of uniform data standards and a high level of corruption in current genome sequence data, particular problems in computational biology include_once individual and creative approaches to solve them.

Our bioinformatics group designed and developed new generation tools (computer programs) to study segmental duplications and syntenic regions of assembled genomes, as well as a new approach to SNP/InDel (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism/Insertion-Deletion) discovery and visualization of EST clustering.

You can access software developed by me and our bioinformatics group at:

GenomePixelizer (http://www.atgc.org/GenomePixelizer/)
GenoPix2D plotter (http://www.atgc.org/GenoPix_2D_Plotter/)
PhyloGrapher (http://www.atgc.org/PhyloGrapher/)
SNP/InDel discovery pipeline (http://cgpdb.ucdavis.edu/SNP_Discovery/)