ABCS Overview

Texas A&M University has an active and expanding interdisciplinary research and educational program in bioinformatics, computational biology and systems biology. The objective of the Alliance for Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Systems Biology (ABCS) is to bring together researchers at TAMU in the broad areas of covered by ABCS and to build communities and facilitate synergistic research and educational activities.

 

ABCS Coordinating Committee

The ABCS Coordinating Committee consists of representatives from participating departments and units. Questions or comments about ABCS can be directed to the Coordinating Committee Chair, Nancy Amato.

 

• Nancy Amato (Computer Science), Chair
• Guy Almes (Academy)
• Rodolfo Aramayo (Biology)
• Sergiy Butenko (Industrial & Systems Engineering)
• Tahir Cagin (Chemical Engineering)
• Jim Hu (Biochemistry & Biophysics)
• Wonmuk Hwang (Biomedical Engineering)
• Bani Mallick (Statistics)
• Penny Riggs (Animal Science)
• Valerie Taylor (Computer Science)
• Jay Walton (Mathematics)
• Byung-Jun Yoon (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
• Joshua S. Yuan (Plant Pathology and Microbiology and Institute for Plant Genomics and Biotechnology)

 

ABCS External Advisory Committee

ABCS has an external advisory committee to provide advice and feedback to the Alliance. The members of the advisory committee are:

• Ken Dill (UCSF)
• Michael Levitt (Stanford)
• Terry Speed (Berkeley)