The operon prediction work by Dr Phuongan Dam was rated best in a recent review paper in Briefings in Bioinformatics:

"... We have estimated the genome-wide performances of several operon predictions for the model organisms E. coli and B. subtilis based on uniform criteria and a single set of experimentally verified operons.
... In both the gene pair and the operon-based analyses performed in this study, the best performance is obtained by the prediction performed by Dam and coworkers."

You may find the review paper here:
Rutger W.W. Brouwer, Oscar P. Kuipers and Sacha A. F. T. van Hijum. The relative value of operon predictions.
Briefings in Bioinformatics Advance Access published April 17, 2008

Congratulations to Dr Phuongan Dam!

Kyle Ellrott received his Ph.D. on Friday, October 26, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
His dissertation was on "Advanced Techniques in Protein Threading and Fold Recognition."

Congratulations, Doctor!

Dr. Ying Xu has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), "for his distinguished contributions to the field of computational biology and bioinformatics, particularly in the development of computational tools for gene finding, protein structure prediction, and genome studies".
The official reception will be held in Boston on Saturday, February 16, 2008, during the Association's Annual Meeting.
Congratulations!!

Congratulations to Dr. Phuongan Dam for her promotion to the rank of assistant research scientist.
All the best, An!

The new website will be installed on Friday, August 17. The access to CSBL website will be off on Friday afternoon for that purpose.
Thanks for your understanding!
The CSBL web team

Dr. Ying Xu will serve as co-chair of the 2nd Computational and Systems Biology Symposium, which will be held on May 23, 2007 at the University of Georgia.

Dr. Ying Xu will serve as co-chair of the 2007 Life Sciences Society Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference (CSB2007), which will be held on August 13-17, 2007 in San Diego, CA.

Drs. Jun-tao Guo and Hongwei Wu have been invited to serve on the program commitee of the 2007 International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA 2007) , which will be held on May 7-10, 2007 at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA.

Congratulations to Dr. Liu for being invited to serve on the program commitee of the 2007 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, which will take place in the Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007.

Drs. Hongwei Wu and Fenglou Mao will co-organize a workshop on "Comparative Genome Analyses of Bacterial Genomes and Applications" at the 2006 LSS Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference (CSB2006), August 18, 2006, at Stanford University.