Tim Ting Chen

Expert in computational biology and bioinformatics.
  • Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences (Division of Molecular Biology)
  • Affiliate, Center for Computational and Experimental Genomics
  • Computer Science and Mathematics
Office: (213) 740-2415

Expertise

  • Applications of computer science andmathematics in biology and medicine
  • Computational biology (bioinformatics),including the discovery of generegulatory relations from geneexpression data analysis; peptideidentification, sequencing andquantification via HPLC-tandem massspectrometry; and protein/proteininteractions
  • Analysis of algorithms, including stringalgorithms, graph algorithms,computational geometry, randomizedalgorithms and approximationalgorithms
  • Evolutionary biology and genetics
  • Reconstruction of evolutionary treesand evolutionary distances
  • Computational genomics
  • Functional genomics
  • Applied mathematics
  • Information theory