Welcome to the Kohlbacher lab!

The group of Oliver Kohlbacher was established in 2003 and is primarily working on computer-aided drug design, immunoinformatics, structural bioinformatics as well as bioinformatics applications in proteomics, metabolomics and systems biology. The group collaborates closely with a large number of experimental groups to gain access to up-to-date and relevant datasets.

Besides classical structural bioinformatics methods, we are focused on the use of combinatorial optimization, graph theoretic approaches and machine learning. To make the methods we develop accessible to a larger audience, we contribute to several larger open-source software projects, e.g., BALL (structural bioinformatics), OpenMS (proteomics) and BN++/BiNA (network analysis).

Some recent publications:

Kohlbacher, O and Reinert, K (2010). OpenMS and TOPP: Open Source Software for LC-MS Data Analysis. In: Proteome Bioinformatics, ed. by Simon J. Hubbard and Andrew R. Jones, vol. 604, chap. 14, Humana Press. Methods in Molecular Biology.

Toussaint, N, Kohlbacher, O, and Rätsch, G (2009). Exploiting Physico-Chemical Properties in String-Kernels. In: MLCB 2009 (accepted).

Recent news:

BALL and BALLView 1.3 released: We are pleased to announce the release 1.3 of our molecular modeling and visualization packages BALL and BALLView. Release 1.3 marks a considerable milestone for BALL and BALLView due to numerous changes to the visualization architecture and cross platform support.

RECOMB Satellite Conference on Computational Proteomics: We are co-organizing the RECOMB Satellite Conference on Computational Proteomics in San Diego in March 2010.