Gene Annotation
Prof. Mark Gerstein is the Albert L Williams professor of Biomedical Informatics, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and Computer Science at Yale, whose research group employs and develops computational methods to identify and annotate the functional regions in the human genome. As part of these efforts, he is a member of various international consortia such as the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE), exRNA and the 1000 Genomes projects. Knowledge of these elements will allow better prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases.