Student research topics

Students from different study levels can participate in different research projects at the Bioinformatics research group. Students can join the following projects:


TOPIC: PCR PRIMER DESIGN

Title: Statistical modeling of genomic PCR outcome. Development of software for masking failure-prone regions of the genome sequence.
Currently working on this topic: Reidar Andreson, Märt Möls

Title: Design of PCR primers for detection of pathogens or food allergens
Currently working on this topic: Kairi Raime


TOPIC: ANNOTATION OF PERSONAL GENOMES

Title: Development of filters which mask low-quality regions in mapped genome sequence data
Currently working on this topic: Ulvi Gerst Talas

Title: Discovery of Alu-repeat elements in human genomes
Currently working on this topic: Tarmo Puurand

Title: Discovery of Copy-Number Variable regions in microarray and sequencing data
Currently working on this topic: Tarmo Puurand