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What We Do
We are a computational biology research group in SIPBS (Strathclyde Institute for Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences), at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. We apply computational and mathematical approaches to better understand biology. Our main areas of research are in microbiology, human health, and plant health, and we have experience in a number of areas, including:
- genomics
- systems biology
- metabolic modelling
- software development
- phylogenetics and phylogenomics
- statistics (frequentist and Bayesian) and modelling
- synthetic biology
- protein sequence-structure-function analysis
Latest Publications
Hobbs, E. E. M., Gloster, T. M., Pritchard, L. (2022) 'cazy_webscraper: local compilation and interrogation of comprehensive CAZyme datasets'. bioRxiv (PrePrint). https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.02.518825v1
McLellan, H., Harvey, S. E., Steinbrenner, J., Armstrong, M. R., He, Q., Clewes, R., Pritchard, L., Wang, W., Wang, S., Nussbaumer, T., Dohai, B., Luo, Q., Kumari, P., Duan, H., Roberts, A., Boevink, P. C., Neumann, C., Champouret, N., Hein, I., ... Birch, P. R. J. (2022). Exploiting breakdown in nonhost effector-target interactions to boost host disease resistance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(35), [e2114064119]. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2114064119
Mazloom, R., Pritchard, L., Brown, C. T., Vinatzer, B. A., & Heath, L. S. (2022). LINgroups as a principled approach to compare and integrate multiple bacterial taxonomies. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics, BCB 2022: roceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (pp. 1-7). [55] (Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics, BCB 2022). https://doi.org/10.1145/3535508.3545546
Feeney, M. A., Newitt, J. T., Addington, E., Algora-Gallardo, L., Allan, C., Balis, L., Birke, A. S., Castaño-Espriu, L., Charkoudian, L. K., Devine, R., _et al._ (2022). ActinoBase: tools and protocols for researchers working on Streptomyces and other filamentous actinobacteria. Microbial Genomics, 8(7), [000824]. https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000824
Pritchard, L., Sharma, P., S., Mazloom, R., Piece, T., Irber, L., Harrington, B., Heath, L., Brown, T., Vinatzer, B. (2022) 'genomeRxiv: a microbial whole-genome database and diagnostic marker design resource for classification, identification, and data sharing', Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2021 https://doi.org/10.1099/acmi.ac2021.po0165
Pritchard, L. Brown, T., Harrington, B., Heath, L., Pierce-Ward, N. T., Vinatzer, B. A. (2022) 'Could a focus on the "why" of taxonomy help taxonomy better respond to the needs of science and society?', Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol. 13, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.887310
Key Collaborators
- SIPBS
- Prof. Gwyn Gould (SIPBS)
- Prof Paul Hoskisson (SIPBS)
- Dr Arnaud Javelle (SIPBS)
- Dr Nick Tucker (SIPBS)
- UK
- Dr Sean Chapman (James Hutton Institute)
- Dr Tracey Gloster (University of St Andrews)
- Prof. Gail Preston (University of Oxford)
- International
- Prof C Titus Brown (UC Davis)
- Prof Lenwood Heath (Virginia Tech)
- Prof Boris Vinatzer (Virginia Tech)
How do I edit this website?
Anyone in the group can edit or add to these pages. To do so, please fork this repository from https://github.com/sipbs-compbiol/sipbs-compbiol.github.io, make your changes, and issue a pull request against the original repository, tagging Leighton as a reviewer. Most requests will be merged without question, but the time to changes going live may vary.