Welcome to the Eddy/Rivas lab at the Janelia Farm Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Our research interests are in computational genome sequence analysis. We use probabilistic modeling techniques to develop new algorithms to find features in DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. One of our primary interests is in identifying novel structural and catalytic RNAs. Another is to recognize remote protein sequence homologies. We focus in particular on development of practical software tools that implement probabilistic inference algorithms for large scale sequence analysis.

Since moving to Janelia Farm in 2006, we have begun to take interest in new problems at the interfaces between neuroscience, genomics, computation, and Bayesian statistical inference.

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Recent Publications

Discovery of Pyrobaculum Small RNA Families With Atypical Pseudouridine Guide RNA Features.
D. L. Bernick, P. P. Dennis, M. H\"ochsmann, T. M. Lowe.
RNA, in press, 2012.

An Improved Greengenes Taxonomy with Explicit Ranks for Ecological and Evolutionary Analyses of Bacteria and Archaea.
D. McDonald, M. N. Price, J. Goodrich, E. P. Nawrocki, T. Z. DeSantis, A. Probst, G. L. Andersen, R. Knight, P. Hugenholtz.
ISME J., in press, 2011.
[abstract] [reprint]

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Software

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HMMER   [website]
Hidden Markov models for sequence
profile analysis.

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Infernal   [website]
RNA structure analysis using
covariance models.

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Databases

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Pfam   [website]
Database of protein family alignments
and hidden Markov models.

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Rfam   [website]
The Rfam database of RNA alignments,
consensus secondary structures,
and profile SCFGs.

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How to reach us

HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus
19700 Helix Drive
Ashburn, VA 20147, USA
Phone: 571.209.4000 [this is the general Janelia operator number, not an office]

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