MCBIOS

Dr. Bindu Nanduri and four students represented MSU at the MCBIOS (MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society) meeting Feb. 1-3 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Shane Sanders won second place in the student poster presentation competition. Susan Bridges was elected to the Board of Directors of MCBIOS. Mississippi will host MCBIOS in 2009.

Poster presentations:

William S. Sanders, Susan A. Bridges, Fiona McCarthy, and Shane C. Burgess, PepFly: A Tool for the Prediction of Peptides Observed by Mass Spectra

Chamali L. Thanthiriwatte, Dusan Kunec, Susan M. Bridges ,Bindu Nanduri and Shane Burgess, DecoyPepFilter: A Tool for Validation of Peptide Identifications from Mass Spectrometry

Surya Saha, Susan Bridges, Zenaida Magbanua and Daniel G. Peterson: Empirical Evaluation of Ab Initio Repeat Finders

G. Bryce Magee, Bindu Nanduri, Susan M. Bridges, Shane Burgess, and W. Paul Williams, ProtQuant: A Tool for the Label-Free Quantification of Shotgun Proteomics Data