Guojun Yang, Ph.D.

Assistant Research Biologist, Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia     E_mail: gyang@plantbio.uga.edu

Welcome to my website!

This web site is about my research activities in molecular biology and computational biology. With sequencing technology breakthroughs, the amount of raw biological information grows exponentially. However, our understanding of its biological meaning is lagging behind. Much of the biological function of these sequences remains to be identified and characterized. Classical molecular biology approaches can provide concrete evidence and lead to reliable conclusions. Nevertheless, with the huge amount of raw sequence data that is already available, computational approaches are showing their strength in decoding information to form new hypotheses. Taking the advantage of modern computing power, bioinformatic approaches allow rapid extraction of knowledge from databases. Information extracted with bioinformatic approaches is often "predictive" or "putative", it depends on wet lab experiments to yield solid knowledge. Thus a combined computational and experimental approach is crucial to modern biology.

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