TAN Tin Wee BA (Cambridge), MSc (London), PhD (Edinburgh) Associate Professor/ Deputy Head Room: MD7 #03-08 Phone: (65) 6516 7149 Email: bchtantw@nus.edu.sg URL: http://www.bic.nus.edu.sg/~tinwee/

MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS

1. Bioinformatics

a. Computer protocols, applications and standards for biological entities, nomenclature, pathways, diagramming and software tools interfacing.

b. Database warehousing using database integration tools.

c. Intron-Exon Databases, Biological Workflow Integration systems, BioGrid Computing.

2. Advanced Internet Network Protocols and Applications in Biological Sciences

a. Advanced Internet research network engineering for bioinformatics applications.

b. Internet protocols for bioinformatics and multilingual internet names.

SIX REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

1. Lee BTK, Tan TW and Ranganathan S. (2003) MGAlignIt: a web service for the alignment of mRNA/EST and genomic sequences. Nucl. Acids Res. 31: 3533-3536.

2. Govindarajan KR, Kangueane P, Tan TW and Ranganathan S. (2003) MPID: MHC-Peptide Interaction Database for sequence-structure-function information on peptides binding to MHC molecules. Bioinformatics 19: 309-310.

3. Vivek G, Tan TW and Ranganathan S. (2003) XdomView: protein domain and exon position visualization. Bioinformatics 19: 159-160.

4. Lim YP, Hoog JO, Gardner P, Ranganathan S, Andersson S, Subbiah S, Tan TW, Hide W and Weiss AS. (2003) The S-Star trial bioinformatics course - An on-line learning success. Biochem. Mol. Biol. Edu. 31: 20-23.

5. Brahmachary M, Krishnan SPT, Koh JLY, Khan AM, Seah SH, Tan TW, Brusic V and Bajic VB. (2004) ANTIMIC: a database of antimicrobial sequences. Nucl. Acids Res. 32: D586-D589.

6. Gopalan V, Tan TW, Lee BTK and Ranganathan S. (2004) Xpro: database of eukaryotic protein-encoding genes. Nucl. Acids Res. 32: D59-D63.