Computational Biology

The Computational Biology Program at TACC is committed to providing the life science research community with computational tools and expertise needed to address modern biological research questions. Our group is focused on ensuring that TACC maintains the hardware, software and domain expertise to support a wide variety of bioscience research.

Applications for Biology

TACC maintains a core set of applications to support life science investigations in the areas of Genomics & Bioinformatics, Phylogenetics and Molecular Dynamics. You can find a list of all our currently installed applications for bioscience research here. All applications are available as modules and compiled to run optimally on TACC systems. We understand that our software stack will never comprise the entire universe of bioscience applications and users are encouraged to compile and run open source and/or custom codes from their home directories. We are also in the process of developing detailed documentation describing how to run these applications on TACC systems along with guidelines for the most commonly used parameters.

Research Activities

In addition to providing the necessary support to the life science research community, the Computational Biology group at TACC actively engages in research efforts. Some of these efforts are initiated by members in the Computational Biology program, others are derived from collaborative efforts with researchers from across the US.

• iPlant – NSF funded project to develop the cyberinfrastructure for addressing plant sciences' grand challenges.
• High-Throughput Virtual Screening Using Molecular Simulations
• Large-scale reconstruction of gene regulatory networks

Group Members

Matthew Vaughn
Research Associate

John Fonner
Research Associate

Karla Gendler
Research Associate

Past Members

Byoung-Do Kim
Michael Souza
Sarat Rallapalli
Shinae Koh