Area of Specialization : Bioinformatics including Proteomics Research

Achievement : awarded the Editor of the Year trophy for handling the most papers in 2005 by Biochemical Journal

Research Interest : Understanding structure-function relationships in biologically important molecules through application of computational and physical techniques. This includes use of artificial intelligence techniques for prediction of protein structure and function from sequence and spectroscopic data. The highly interdisciplinary research work involves a combination of theoretical and experimental studies for obtaining a better understanding of protein structure-function relationships. Particular emphasis is placed on developing bioinformatics approaches for proteomics research.

Latest Publications :

      Joachim A. Hering, Peter R. Innocent, Parvez I. Haris (2004) Empirical Knowledge and Genetic Algorithms for Selection of Amide I Frequencies in Protein Secondary Structure Prediction. 2nd Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC2004), Dunedin, New Zealand. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 29. Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen. Ed. pp. 345-350.

     Hering J.A., Innocent P.R. and Haris, P.I. (2004) Beyond average protein secondary structure content prediction using FTIR spectroscopy. Applied Bioinformatics 3: 9-20.

     Hering J.A., Innocent P.R. and Haris, P.I. (2004) Towards developing a protein infrared spectra databank (PISD) for proteomics research. Proteomics 4; 2310-2319.

     Hering J.A., Innocent P.R. and Haris, P.I. (2003) Neuro-fuzzy structural classification of proteins for improved protein secondary structure prediction. Proteomics 3: 1464-1475.

     Ohlenschläger, O., Hojo, H., Ramachandran, R., Görlach, M., and Haris, P.I. (2002) Three-dimensional Structure of the S4-S5 Segment of the Shaker Potassium Channel. Biophys. J. 82: 2995-3002.