VIMSS Computational Microbiology Core Research on Comparative and Functional Genomics

Background. The VIMSS Computational Core group is tasked with data management, statistical analysis, and comparative and evolutionary genomics for the larger VIMSS effort. In the early years of this project, we focused on genome sequence analysis including development of an operon prediction algorithm which has been validated across a number of phylogenetically diverse species. Recently, the Computational Core group has expanded its efforts, integrating large amounts of functional genomic data from several species into its comparative genomic framework.