Bioserver

The Bioinformatics Group led by prof. Jacek Błażewicz started to evolve in the second half of 90's in the Laboratory of Algorithm Design and Programming Systems within the Institute of Computing Science of the Poznan University of Technology. Today, it collects also researchers from the Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Joint work of the two Institutes has resulted in a number of projects, publications and patents. Recent participation in a structural grant and formal establishment of the European Center for Bioinformatics and Genomics (ECBiG) has pointed out the importance of this cooperation and strengthened the research potential of the group.

The main areas of our research are:

- DNA sequencing and assembling (including design of algorithms for the NGS sequencers);

- protein structure analysis;

- RNA structure analysis and prediction (including automatic tertiary structure prediction tool);

- nanotechnology and DNA computing;

The group also takes part in national and international projects (e.g. Compuvac, Metafunctions and Bioptrain, all within FP6 Framework Programme, were the most recent ones).