The Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Group developes enabling technologies to investigate the genetic potential of marine bacteria and their mechanisms coded in the genome to adapt to changing environmental conditions.
Science and services are focussed on whole genome and metagenome analysis, binning of sequence fragments, phylogenetic inference, expression profiling as well as software and database development for integrated data analysis.
The group organizes international workshops and training courses on phylogeny and sequence/genome analysis. It is involved in educating bioinformatics at the
University Bremen, the
Jacobs University Bremen and the
MarMic graduate program.