Homepage Dr. Harald Meier

The main effort of my work is to flourish the research group Bioinformatics at the Department of Computer Architecture of the Technische Universität München .

Our work focuses on the identification and analysis of problems in applied and theoretical molecular biology, as well as on the development of suitable software solutions, especially for the convenient and rapid analysis of nucleic acid and protein sequences. One focal point is set to performance optimization on parallel and distributed computer systems.

The current goals are the high performance analysis of molecular sequence data and phylogenetic analysis. Our efforts comprise the analysis of bacterial genomes, structural and functional genes, search for molecular signatures, probe/primer design and evaluation, design and evaluation of DNA-Microarrays (DNA-Chips), as well as molecular phylogeny on supercomputers. Many of the developed software applications are implemented in the ARB software package.

My particular interests target the bioinformatic aspects of microbial genomics, molecular targets and their signatures, probe/primer design, phylogeny and biodiversity.