Life Sciences Computing
Purpose
The Life Sciences Computing Group at TACC is committed to providing the life science research community with computational tools and expertise needed to address modern biological research questions. The TACC team is focused on ensuring that TACC maintains the hardware, software and domain expertise to support a wide variety of bioscience research.
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 of the Life Sciences Computing Group, others are derived from collaborative efforts with researchers from across the US.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
- The Arabidopsis Informational Portal
- Causes and Consequences of Epigenetic Variation in Maize
- Center for Lung Development Imaging and Omics
- Development of Systems Informatics Tools to Accelerate Livestock Genomics
- DrugDiscovery@TACC
- Dynamic Changes in the Chick Developing Heart in Response to Altered Hemodynamics
- Epigenome Dynamics During DNA Replication
- CyVerse
- UT System Research Cyberinfrastructure (UTRC)
- VDJ Server
Matthew Vaughn, PhD
Director of Life Sciences Computing
vaughn@tacc.utexas.edu | 512-232-7124
John Fonner, PhD
Research Associate
jfonner@tacc.utexas.edu | 512-232-5939
James Carson, PhD
Research Associate
jcarson@tacc.utexas.edu | 512-475-7887
Jawon Song, PhD
Research Associate
jawon@tacc.utexas.edu | 512-471-7291
Gregory Zynda
Research Engineering / Scientist Associate
gzynda@tacc.utexas.edu | 512-475-9411