VCU Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Summer Institute
Virginia Commonwealth University
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Lucas B. Chaney
  Home Institution
  Hiram College
  Hiram, Ohio
  E-mail: chaneylb@hiram.edu

  Home mentor
  Brad Goodner
  Dept. of Biology
  E-mail: goodnerbw@hiram.edu
VCU Lab
Streptococcus sanguis Genome Sequencing Project
http://www.sanguis.mic.vcu.edu/

VCU mentor
Todd Kitten
Dept. of Oral & Craniofacial Molecular Biol.
E-mail: tkitten@vcu.edu

BOX-C is being maintained at a new location (http://hgi.hiram.edu/boxc/)

Summer 2004
Program: Source (in Perl)
v 1.02.04.08.24 (Requires: BioPerl, BioPerl-Run, and local Primer3)
Report: A Program for Rapid Gap Closure Employing BLAST Organism Cross Comparison Against Multiple References
In Adobe Acrobat ".pdf" format
Current Research in Bioinformatics & Bioengineering
Identification of Novel Virulence-Associated Genes... (.ppt)
           Garbom,S. et al. (2004), Infection and Immunity, v. 72 pp. 1333-1340.
Progress: Research Status Report
BOX-C PowerPoint
Research proposal: Streptococcus sanguis Gap Closure
In Adobe Acrobat ".pdf" format

Academic Year 2003-2004
Report: Blast Organism X(cross)-Comparison: BOX-C
In Adobe Acrobat ".pdf" format
Program: Source (in Perl)
v 1.00.04.06.21 (Requires: BioPerl, BioPerl-Run, and local Primer3)
Research proposal: More Gap-Closing Primer Design
In Adobe Acrobat ".pdf" format

Summer 2003
Results: BCSSGCPD Source
"Blast Comparison of Similar Species for Gap-Closing Primer Design"
Beta version 0.5 In ".rar" compressed format
Research proposal: Gap-Closing Primer Design
In Adobe Acrobat ".pdf" format


Prior research
Genetic Algorithms
(used to evolve heuristics for play of strategic games)

Characteristic interests and activities
Computer Science
(artificial intelligence, Lisp, C++)
Soccer
AIBS Hiram College student chapter Club Officer
Hiram College ACM student chapter Club President

Home mentor's research interests
Genomics-based phylogenetics
Fine annotation of bacterial genomes
Bacterial pathogenesis












Last updated 2004 November 07th

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