2008 Research Summary - Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO)

Large Projects

• Bioinformatics
  Michael Jordan
• BioText: Natural Language Analysis of Bioscience Text (BioText)
  Marti Hearst
• Steering Flexible Needles through Soft Tissues
  Ken Goldberg

Small Projects

• A Reachability Algorithm for Biologically Inspired Piecewise-Affine Hybrid Systems
  Anil Jayanti Aswani and Claire Tomlin
• AMAP: Multiple Alignment by Sequence Annealing
  Ariel Shaul Schwartz, Lior Pachter and Sudeep Juvekar
• Biomimetic, Polymeric Transistor-based Biosensor Technology (PNTFT)
  Albert Pisano and Jim Chih-Min Cheng
• Encapsulation of Integrated Circuits for Microfluidic Interface in Biosensors
  Amy Wu and Bernhard Boser
• Model-Based Membrane Computing
  Chihhong Patrick Cheng and Edward A. Lee
• Post-IC CMOS Molecular Sensors
  Karl Ryszard Skucha, Bernhard Boser and Ali Javey
• The Path of the Blind Watchmaker: A Large-Scale, Interspecies Markov Model of Evolution (LIMME)
  Andrew Anthony Poggio, David A. Patterson, Christos Papadimitriou, Adam Arkin and Brent Mishler