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Exelixis is the Greek word for evolution. I know that it is a very
cliche type of thing to give the lab a Greek name, but I could honestly
not come up with something better. The image above is a view of Mount
Psiloritis on the island of Crete in winter 2006.
Some Exelixis lab members in January 2011 at TU Munich after the Master's thesis defense of Andre Aberer.
Top (left to right): Denis Krompaß, Nikos Alachiotis, Alexandros Stamatakis
Bottom (left to right): Simon Berger, Fernando Izquierdo-Carrasco, Andre Aberer
Photo: courtesy of Marlena Drabik (secretary of Bioinformatics chair at TUM)
mission
Our focus is on the evolution of hardware and parallel
computer
architectures as well as on the evolution of molecular sequences. We
understand Bioinformatics as a discipline that develops algorithms,
models, and tools that help Biologists to generate new biological
insights and knowledge. We try to bridge the gap between the
world of systematics and the world of high performance computing. Due
to the increasing descrepancy between the pace of molecular data
accumulation and increase
in CPU speeds (which is much slower), which we call the
"Bio-Gap" we feel that the
time has come to establish parallel computing as standard technique in
Bioinformatics.
propsective students from KIT
We are always looking for student programmers (HiWis) and students interested in doing bachelor/master theses projects with us.
If you are interested please send an email to Alexis.
contact
RAxML questions, help & bug reports: please use the RAxML google group
Alexandros Stamatakis
Scientific Computing Group
Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 35
D-69118 Heidelberg
Email: Alexandros dot Stamatakis at h hyphen its dot org
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