Contact Information
Paul Stothard, PhD
Assistant Professor
Bioinformatics
Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science (AFNS)
1400 College Plaza
8215 - 112 Street
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2C8
email: stothard@ualberta.ca
phone: 1.780.492.5242
fax: 1.780.492.4265
Research Interests
Gene discovery in agriculturally important species - we are using genetics and bioinformatics to understand the genetic basis of economically important traits.
Rumen bacteria - we are using bioinformatics approaches and microbial profiling methods to study the bacterial populations in the bovine rumen, to better understand their relationships to host traits like feed efficiency.
Automated genome annotation - we have developed several software tools to aid in the analysis and annotation of bacterial genomes. These tools will be extended and refined so that they can identify a broader range of sequence features with better accuracy.