1. Bioinformatics Group at UNB: Strengths in Computer Science Virendra C. Bhavsar Faculty of Computer Science University of New Brunswick Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3 Canada

2. OUTLINE Faculty of Computer Science at UNB Research Groups Faculty interested in Bioinformatics Interactions with the Faculty of Science and others Conclusion

3. The Faculty of CS at UNB The first Faculty of CS in Canada (established in 1990) Largest CS Undergraduate and Postgraduate Program in Atlantic Canada Diverse Group of Highly Interactive Scientists - interested in challenges and opportunities presented by modern biology Information Technology Center (ITC)

4. FCS: Research Groups Artificial Intelligence Group Human Computer Interaction Group Interactive Computing Group Parallel/Distributed Processing Group Computational Geometry Group Automated Reasoning Group Bioinformatics Group

5. Interested CS Faculty Patricia Evans - Bioinformatics/Computational Biology - Distributed Database searching Lev Goldfarb - Inductive Learning: ETS - Pattern Recognition Joseph Horton - Computational Geometry - Automated Reasoning Bruce Spencer - Automated Reasoning - LogicProgramming Alex Lopex-Ortiz - Internet Computing - Computational Geometry David Bremner - Computational Geometry Bradley Nickerson - Spatial Databases - Knowledge-based Systems - Director, ITC

6. Interested CS Faculty(cont.) Rodney Cooper - Databases - Data Mining - Cryptography William Hyslop - Databases - Data Mining Ali Ghorbani - Artificial Intelligence - Parallel/Distributed Processing Claudia Iturriaga - Computational Geometry Weichang Du - Parallel/Distributed Processing Colin Ware - Human Computer Interaction - Visualization Virendra Bhavsar - Parallel/Distributed Processing - Pattern Recognition - Intelligent Agents

7. Bioinfomatics Computational Gene Finding, Protein Classification and Functional Assignment Genome data analyses Patricia Evans, Lev Goldfarb, Alex Lopez- Ortiz, Ali Ghorbani, David Bremner, Joseph Horton, Bruce Spencer, Claudia Iturriaga, Virendra Bhavsar, Bradley Nickerson Heterogeneous hardware/software Intelligent mobile software agents Lev Goldfarb, Alex Lopez-Ortiz, Ali Ghorbani, Virendra Bhavsar, Rod Cooper, William Hyslop, Weichang Du Data Management/Data Mining/Data Warehousing Lev Goldfarb, Rod Cooper, William Hyslop, Weichang Du

8. Bioinformatics (cont.) Very high speed bioinformatic searches and analyses - High Performance Computing Patricia Evans, Alex Lopez-Ortiz, Virendra Bhavsar, Weichang Du  Visualization Colin Ware

9. Collaborations/Interactions Patricia Evans - Denise Clark (Biology) - Mariana Kant (U de Moncton) - Alex Lopex-Ortiz Lev Goldfarb - Saba Mattar (Chemistry) - Ghislain Deslongchamps - Virendra Bhavsar - William Hyslop Rod Cooper - Ghislain Deslongchamps Virendra Bhavsar - C3.ca and HPCnet - Memorial University of NF - NRC, Ottawa - Benerjee (Statistics) - Saba Mattar Advanced Computational Research Laboratory - CFI proposal (CS, Sci. and Eng.)

10. Conclusion Information Technology Center - Internet Computing Laboratory (CFI)  - Advanced Computational Research Laboratory (CFI proposal) Young and Dynamic Faculty in CS Diverse Group of Highly Interactive Scientists - enthusiastic about the challenges and opportunities presented by modern biology Strong interactions with the Faculty of Science and others