I'm working in Chris Burge's bioinformatics lab in MIT's biology department. I do some computational biology research and some general computer administration. I worked on the web servers for a few different pieces of bioinformatics software, such as Genscan. Currently I'm doing a small research project searching for ribosomal frameshifting examples; soon I'm going to start focusing more on alternative splicing. Working at MIT means I can take free classes; this fall I'm taking 7.21, Microbial Physiology, which I wanted to take as an undergrad.

Bioinformatics links that I use:

• NCBI, source of all useful information
• Pfam, a protein domain database
• BioPerl, a set of perl modules for bioinformatics
• Genscan, a tool for locating genes in genomic structures
• pictogram, a handy program for visualizing consensus sequences