Chris Elsik

Chris Elsik, Ph.D
Assistant Professor

Office: Reiss 401B

Email: ce75@georgetown.edu
Phone: 202-687-4485
FAX: 202-687-5662

My research includes three areas of focus in bioinformatics/computational biology, all of which are loosely tied by the underlying theme of molecular evolution. The first area is genome/gene sequence analysis and annotation, which involves applying concepts of molecular evolution to infer function, as well as using bioinformatics approaches to understand genome evolution. The second area is the development of databases that allow others to benefit from our work in genome analysis and annotation. We are developing genome databases for honey bee (BeeBase.org) and cattle (BovineGenome.org).The third area is developing algorithms for better classifying proteins; these algorithms will serve as tools for molecular evolution and annotation.