This page focuses on the Toronto Computational Biology community.

Seminars

We maintain an up to date list of [:Seminars:computational biology relevant seminars in Toronto]. You can subscribe to the page to get e-mail alerts whenever a new seminar is added, or you can subscribe to the RSS feed for this website at the RecentChanges page.

Additional seminar lists:

Banting and Best has journal club on Tuesdays at 12:30pm and seminars on Friday at 12:30pm. TDCCBR has seminars Fridays at 1pm in the red room. The Hughes lab genomics journal club is at 4pm Wednesdays. Medical Genetics invited speaker seminars are at 4pm Mondays and student seminars are at 3pm Tuesdays in MSB 2172.

We also maintain an ["Events"] page, for interesting computational related events.

Conferences

A [:Conferences:list of conferences] that members of the Bader lab will attend or have attended is on the ["Conferences"] page.

A general [:FutureConferences:list of interesting upcoming conferences] is on the [:FutureConferences:Future Conferences] page.

Courses

The University of Toronto [:Courses:offers a number of courses and programs] in computational biology.

Seneca College also offers a [http://bioinformatics.senecac.on.ca/ bioinformatics program].

The University of Waterloo [http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/navigation/Prospective/programs/bioinfo.shtml undergraduate bioinformatics co-op program] and [http://monod.uwaterloo.ca/ bioinformatics research group].

Toronto Computational Biology Community

University of Toronto

Mainly computational

[http://baderlab.org Gary Bader]

Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research, Banting and Best

Biomolecular interaction networks and pathways, molecular profiles, cancer

[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bonner/ Anthony Bonner]

Computer Science

Computational biology algorithms, machine learning

[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~brudno/ Michael Brudno]

Computer Science, Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research

Computational biology algorithms

[http://ashercutter.net/ Asher Cutter]

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Evolutionary genetics

[http://biochemistry.utoronto.ca/chan/bch.html Hue-Sun Chan]

Biochemistry, Medical Genetics

Computational protein folding

[http://www.psi.toronto.edu/ Brendan Frey]

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research

Bayesian networks, machine learning algorithms

[http://www.blueprint.org Chris Hogue]

Biochemistry

Molecular interaction database, pathway simulation, protein folding

[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~juris/ Igor Jurisica]

Ontario Cancer Institute @ MaRS, Computer Science

Cancer informatics

[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~lilien/ Ryan Lilien]

Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research, Computer Science, Banting and Best

Computational structural biology

[http://web.chem-eng.utoronto.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=650&Itemid=62 Radhakrishnan Mahadevan]

Chemical Engineering, IBBME

Systems analysis and engineering of biological processes, bacterial metabolic flux analysis

[http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~mcmillen/ David McMillen]

UofT, Mississauga

Quantitive biology, cell system simulation

[http://www.psi.toronto.edu/~quaid/ Quaid Morris]

Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research, Computer Science

Machine learning algorithms

[http://www.biochemistry.utoronto.ca/parkinson/lab/ John Parkinson]

Hospital for Sick Children @ MaRS, Medical Genetics

Comparitive genomics, cell system simulation

[http://biochemistry.utoronto.ca/pomes/bch.html Regis Pomes]

Hospital for Sick Children

Molecular dynamics simulations of proteins

[http://www.botany.utoronto.ca/ResearchLabs/ProvartLab Nicholas Provart]

Botany

Arabidopsis thaliana gene expression analysis

[http://biochemistry.utoronto.ca/steipe/ Boris Steipe]

Biochemistry, Medical Genetics

Structural bioinformatics, protein engineering

[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~roweis/ Sam Roweis]

Computer Science

Machine learning, Analysis of large datasets

[http://www.uhnresearch.ca/labs/tillier/home.htm Elisabeth Tillier]

University Health Network @ MaRS

Molecular evolution

[http://www.mie.utoronto.ca/staff/profiles/thodoros/ Thodoros Topaloglou]

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Data management

[http://www.sickkids.on.ca/research/custom/wodak.asp Shoshana Wodak]

Hospital for Sick Children, Medical Genetics

Transcription factor-DNA binding, protein docking and engineering

[http://www.utoronto.ca/zhanglab/ Zhaolei Zhang]

Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research, Banting and Best, Medical Genetics

Comarative genomics, evolution, regulatory element prediction

Mainly wet lab

[http://www.utoronto.ca/andrewslab/ Brenda Andrews]

Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research, Banting and Best, Medical Genetics

Genetic and physical interactions in yeast

[http://www.utoronto.ca/boonelab/ Charlie Boone]

Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research, Banting and Best, Medical Genetics

Genetic and physical interactions in yeast

[http://lambda.med.utoronto.ca/Davidson/ Alan Davidson]

Biochemistry, Medical Genetics

Protein folding, protein interactions

[http://www.ecf.utoronto.ca/~sdavies/ Stephen Davies]

Institute for Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering

Genetic ciruits, DNA computing

[http://www.botany.utoronto.ca/ResearchLabs/guttmanLab/ David Guttman]

Botany

Comparative and evolutionary genomics, molecular evolution

[http://www.utoronto.ca/emililab/ Andrew Emili]

Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research, Banting and Best, Medical Genetics

Proteomics, functional genomics, bioinformatics, mass spectrometry

Guri Giaever

[http://www.utoronto.ca/medicalgenetics/PIs/GREENBLA.HTM Jack Greenblatt]

Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research, Banting and Best, Medical Genetics

Proteomics, transcription regulation

[http://biochemistry.utoronto.ca/houry/Labpage/index.html Walid Houry]

Biochemistry

Molecular chapersones

[http://hugheslab.med.utoronto.ca/ Tim Hughes]

Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research, Banting and Best, Medical Genetics

Functional genomics using gene expression microarrays

Corey Nislow

[http://pawsonlab.mshri.on.ca/ Tony Pawson]

Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Medical Genetics

Cell signaling, protein interaction domains

[http://xtal.oci.utoronto.ca/prive/index.html Gil Privé]

Ontario Cancer Institute

X-ray crystallography

[http://www.tcag.ca/scherer/ Steve Scherer]

Hospital for Sick Children @ MaRS, The Centre for Applied Genomics, Medical Genetics

Human genetics

[http://www.utoronto.ca/cancyto/ Jeremy Squire]

Princess Margaret Hospital

Microarrays and cancer

[http://www.wlstanfordlab.com/ William Stanford]

Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering

Mouse mutants, stem cells

[http://individual.utoronto.ca/ktruong/ Kevin Truong]

Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Protein engineering, bioinformatics

[http://www.mshri.on.ca/tyers/ Mike Tyers]

Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Medical Genetics

Cell division in yeast, proteomics, interaction databases

[http://kinase.uhnres.utoronto.ca/ Jim Woodgett]

Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Medical Genetics

Protein kinases, DNA microarrays

[http://www.mshri.on.ca/bios/Wrana.html Jeff Wrana]

Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Medical Genetics

TGF-beta pathway, protein interaction networks

[http://bigten.med.utoronto.ca Christopher Yip]

Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering

Single molecule imaging, protein assembly

Biostats and epidemiology

[http://142.150.180.17/faculty_template.asp?GetFile=BJoseph Joseph Beyene]

Hospital for Sick Children

Interest in gene expression microarray analysis

[http://www.mshri.on.ca/mitacs/members/profiles.html Shelley Bull]

Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute

Statistical genetics, microarray analysis

[http://142.150.180.17/faculty_template.asp?GetFile=GCelia Celia Greenwood]

Hospital for Sick Children

Genetic epidemiology, microarray analysis

[http://fisher.utstat.toronto.edu/~rafal/welcome.html Rafal Kustra]

Public Health Sciences

Mining large datasets, microarray analysis

[http://www.mshri.on.ca/bios/Mclaughlin.html John McLaughlin]

Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute

Statistical genetics and cancer

[http://www.uhnres.utoronto.ca/researchers/profile.php?lookup=6094 David Tritchler]

Princess Margaret Hospital

Interest in gene expression microarray analysis

Bioethics

[http://www.utoronto.ca/jcb/about/singer.htm Peter Singer]

Joint Centre for Bioethics

Genomics and global health

Centres

[http://www.ccb.sickkids.ca/ Centre for Computational Biology]

Hospital for Sick Children

Support and services

[http://www.phenogenomics.ca Toronto Centre for Phenogenomics]

SLRI, UHN, SickKids, St. Michael's

Mouse phenogenomics

[http://www.cmhd.ca/ Centre for Modeling Human Disease]

Centre for Phenogenomics

Gene trap database

[http://www.ehealthinnovation.org/ Centre for Global eHealth Innovation]

University Health Network, University of Toronto

eHealth

[http://www.ocbn.ca/ Ontario Cancer Biomarker Network]

MaRS

Cancer Biomarkers

[http://www.crio.on.ca/ Cancer Research Institute of Ontario]

MaRS

Coming soon

York University

[http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~datta/ Suprakash Datta]

Computer Science

Genomic signal processing

[http://www.math.yorku.ca/~jgrigull/ Jörg Grigull]

Mathematics and Statistics

Microarray analysis

[http://gl.yorku.ca:8008/GlMedia.nsf/DeptInformationTechnology/3FBEFA57B9F7327E85256A22006C0EF6?OpenDocument Mariana Kant]

Computer Science

Databases, algorithms

[http://www.math.yorku.ca/Who/Faculty/Whiteley/menu.html Walter Whiteley]

Mathematics and Statistics

Protein structure

Sites

See the [http://cbio.ca/ Computational Biology Institute of Ontario] [http://cbio.ca/community.html community website],BR organized by Boris Steipe, for an Ontario-wide list.

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See the [http://bioinformatics.ca/ bioinformatics.ca] [http://bioinformatics.ca/bioinformatics_resources/people/ community website],BR organized by Francis Ouellette, for a Canada-wide list.

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See the [http://www.gchelpdesk.ualberta.ca/ Canadian Bioinformatics Help Desk] for help with bioinformatics tools

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Companies

Bioinformatics

Unleashed Informatics

http://unleashedinformatics.com/||200 Elm Street

Bioinformatics databases e.g. BIND, SeqHound

Benetech

http://www.benetech.com/||180 Bloor St. W. Suite 500

Clinical software, LIMS

cStar Technologies

http://www.cstartech.com/||1122 Finch Ave. W.

Wireless sample tracking

Clinical informatics

McDougall Scientific

http://www.mcd-sci.on.ca||789 Don Mills Rd. Suite 305

Clinical statistical analysis, data management

Medical Databanks

http://www.medicaldatabanks.com/||880 Ellesmere Rd., 3rd Floor

Clinical research, data management

RamSoft

http://www.ramsoft.biz/||243 College Street, Suite 100

Medical imaging software

Chemiinformatics

Advanced Chemistry Development

https://www.acdlabs.com/||110 Yonge Street, 14th floor

Chemistry software

SimBioSys

http://www.simbiosys.ca/||135 Queen's Plate Drive Unit 520

Computational chemistry, docking

Biomedical graphics

AXS Biomedical Animation Studio

http://axs3d.com/||MaRS building

Biomedical 3D animation

Genomics

ChondroGene

http://www.chondrogene.com/||800 Petrolia Road (401 & Keele)

Molecular diagnostics

CombiMatrix

http://www.combimatrix.com/||MaRS||Custom DNA microarrays

Tm Bioscience

http://www.tmbioscience.com/||439 University Ave, Suite 900

DNA-based diagnostics

Proteomics

MDS Sciex

http://www.mdssciex.com||71 Four Valley Drive, Concord, ON

Mass spectrometry instruments/software

Infochromics

http://www.infochromics.com/||MaRS building

Proteomics data analysis software

Biotech hubs

MaRS Discovery District (Medical and Related Services)

http://www.marsdd.com/||MaRS building

Biotechnology hub

Community (last edited 2007-01-03 01:45:42 by GaryBader)

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