John D. Besemer, Ph.D.

 

Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratories of Dr. John M. Logsdon & Dr. Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Tech

john at amber.biology.gatech.edu

Large-scale bioinformatic analyses of prokaryotic genes and genomes.

Ph.D. 2002, Georgia Tech.

M.Eng. Georgia Tech.

B.Eng.

 

 

Publications:

Besemer J, Borodovsky M. 2005. GeneMark: web software for gene finding in prokaryotes, eukaryotes and viruses. Nucleic Acids Res. 33:W451-4.

Huang SH, Chen YH, Kong G, Chen SH, Besemer J, Borodovsky M, Jong A. 2001. A novel genetic island of meningitic Escherichia coli K1 containing the ibeA invasion gene (GimA): functional annotation and carbon-source-regulated invasion of human brain microvascular endothelial cells. Funct Integr Genomics 1:312-22.

Besemer J, Lomsadze A, Borodovsky M. 2001. GeneMarkS: a self-training method for prediction of gene starts in microbial genomes. Implications for finding sequence motifs in regulatory regions. Nucleic Acids Res 29:2607-18.

Slupska MM, King AG, Fitz-Gibbon S, Besemer J, Borodovsky M, Miller JH. 2001. Leaderless transcripts of the crenarchaeal hyperthermophile Pyrobaculum aerophilum. J Mol Biol 309:347-60.

Besemer J, Borodovsky M. 1999. Heuristic approach to deriving models for gene finding. Nucleic Acids Res. 27:3911-20.

Last modified 19 July 2005.