Ph.D student fellow (2004 - 2008)

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. J. Miguel Ortega.

Thesis Title: Text-mining, sequence clustering and data integration for the development of the Plant Defense Mechanisms database.

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Projects Participation

· Development of K-EST (KOG Sampling/Expression Search Tool) tool for on-line differential gene expression analysis. (http://www.biotec.icb.ufmg.br/K-EST);

· Development of PCT (Protein Classification tool) for on-line annotation of protein function (http://www.biotec.icb.ufmg.br/pct);

· Development of an algorithm for clustering of protein sequences based on bidirectional-best-hit (Seed Linkage);

· Development of the on-line database PDM (Plant Defense Mechanisms);

· Development of the software PROTOGIM (Protozoan Gene Identification Motif) for the analysis of orphan genes in protozoan proteomes (http://www.biowebdb.org/protogim);

· Mapping of transposon insertion events in rice genome;

· Processing and annotation of rice ESTs from plants infected with the fungus Magnaporthe grisea;

· Processing and annotation of rice ESTs from plants cultivated in soil with high concentrations of aluminium;

· Machine learning analysis, using clustering algorithms for the comparison of scorpion venom samples from different species;

· Development of a system for the management of clone sequencing for the Minas Gerais State Genome Project (Schistosoma mansoni EST sequencing);

· ESTs sequence analysis from genes expressed in the venom gland of Tytyus scorpions;