Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics Website: https://faculty.utrgv.edu/marzieh.ayati/research.html
What We Do
Our research focuses on designing algorithms and development of models and software to extract information from variety of molecular biology data including genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic and phospho-proteomic (i.e. omics data).
Current Projects
- Analysis of Phosphoproteomics Data in Alzheimer's Disease
- Analysis of Phosphoproteomics Data in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
- Prediction of Kinase-Substrate Interactions
- Rewiring of Biological Networks
- Post-Translational Modifications Crosstalk
Bioinformatics Research Advisors
Dr. Marzieh Ayati
Assistant Professor
marzieh.ayati@utrgv.edu
Areas of Research
- Data Mining
- High-Throughput Data Analysis
- Systems/Network Biology
- Omics Data
Related Courses
CSCI 4341 Introduction to Data Science
This course provides an introduction to computational and statistical approaches to analyzing data. While this course will substantially overlap with courses such as introductory statistics, data mining, and machine learning.
CSCI 4344 Bioinformatics
This course provides an introduction to the analysis of biological data using computational methods.Topics include sequence analysis, gene finding, pairwise and multiple alignments, gene mapping, motif identification, polymorphisms, phylogenetic analysis, microarray data analysis, and analysisof proteomic data.