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About the group

The applied bioinformatics group was founded in 2007 at the University of Queensland to lead a Bioinformatics node for the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics and establish independent research in applied bioinformatics. Since this time, the group has attracted more than 6.5 M AU$ in competitive funds and is a leading bioinformatics group in Australia. Our current research activities include the second generation sequencing of complex plant genomes and bacterial metagenomic populations, genome annotation, diversity analysis and data visualisation.

The group receives funding from the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, the University of Queensland, the Australian Research Council, the Grains Research and Development Corporation and several industry partners to undertake applied bioinformatics research in genetics and genomics.

The group is led by Professor David Edwards and consists of 10 full time researchers with diverse backgrounds. We offer training in applied bioinformatics at all levels and publish widely in the fields of genomics, genetics and bioinformatics. Please contact David Edwards for further information.

We are based at the University of Queensland's St Lucia campus in Brisbane, Australia.


Publications

A current list of publications can be found here 'publications'



Public research projects

The applied bioinformatics research group works in several areas associated with second generation sequencing and assembly, genetic and genomic variation analysis and the discovery and application of molecular genetic markers. We work with a range of species, mostly in collaboration with a broad range of national and international research groups.



Genome sequencing

Wheat genome sequencing
Brassica genome sequencing
Metagenomics
TAGdb


Transcriptomics

A differential kmer analysis pipeline


Molecular marker discovery

SNP discovery
SSR discovery
Genetic map visualisation


Genome annotation and visualisation

Gene and genome annotation


Species of interest include:

Wheat
Barley
Brassica
Metagenomics

Group members

Group leader

David Edwards


Postdocs

Kenneth Chan

Hong Ching Lee

Edmund Ling


Researchers

Sahana Manoli

Pradeep Ruperao


PhD students

Salman Alamery

Paul Berkman

Kaitao Lai

Michal Lorenc

Paul Visendi Muhindira

Manuel Zander


Interns

Positions available, please contact David Edwards if interested


Alumni

Nikki Appleby

Jacqueline Batley

Terry Clark

Chris Duran

Mike Imelfort

Tristan de Jong

Daniel Marshall

Adam Skarshewski

Lars Smits

Jiri Stiller

Sonika Tyagi

Megan Vardy

Ping Zhang


Positions available

There are current positions availble at all levels including Postdoc, Researcher, PhD student and Intern. Candidates should have a good understanding of one or more areas of Computing, Software development, Complex data analysis, Bioinformatics or Genomics. For consideration, please forward your cv and cover letter to Dave.Edwards@uq.edu.au.