Project Partners

Dr. Dirk Walther

Dr. Dirk Walther (10875 Byte)Group Leader Bioinformatics
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Am Muehlenberg 1
14474 Potsdam-Golm
Tel 0331-567-8108
Fax 0331-567-8136
walther@mpimp-golm.mpg.de

Core Competency:

Computational biology and bioinformatics; complex data analysis with focus on gene expression data, genomic sequence information, gene ontologies and protein structure; machine learning techniques for marker identification and sample classification.

Contribution to Work Programme:

WP1: Development of databases for the integration of the various heterogeneous datasets using concepts developed under the Resource Description Framework (RDF); graphical visualization method and bioinformatics analysis tool development; cross-species comparisons Chlamydomonas / other model organisms / higher plants and eukaryotes based on sequence, gene ontology, protein structure and abundance information; correlation network analyses from profiling experiments. The major contribution of this partner will be to WP1.

GoFORSYS Publications of the Group:

May, P., S. Wienkoop, et al. (2008). "Metabolomics- and proteomics-assisted genome annotation and analysis of the draft metabolic network of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii." Genetics 179(1): 157-166.

Nikoloski, Z., S. Grimbs, et al. (2008). "Metabolic networks are NP-hard to reconstruct." Journal of Theoretical Biology 254(4): 807-816.

Childs, L., Z. Nikoloski, et al. (2009). "Identification and classification of ncRNA molecules using graph properties." Nucleic Acids Research.

Christian, N., P. May, et al. (2009). "An integrative approach towards completing genome-scale metabolic networks." Molecular Systems Biology.

Gunther, S., J. von Eichborn, et al. (2009). "JAIL: a structure-based interface library for macromolecules." Nucleic Acids Research 37: D338-D341.

Kempa, S., D. Walther, et al. (2009). Metabolic Engineering. Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. J. M. Walker and R. Rapley, Royal Society of Chemistry.

May, P., J. O. Christian, et al. (2009). "ChlamyCyc: an integrative systems biology database and web-portal for Chlamydomonas reinhardtii." BMC Genomics 10(1): 209.

Contact

Dr. Claudia Falter
University of Potsdam
GoFORSYS
c/o Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Am Mühlenberg 1
D-14476 Potsdam-Golm

Tel +49-331-5678470
Mobil 01621057733

goforsys@uni-potsdam.de
http://www.GoFORSYS.de