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Chin-Hsien (Emily) Tai

Laboratory of Molecular Biology Molecular Modeling and Bioinformatics Section Staff Scientist Center for Cancer Research National Cancer Institute Bldg. 37, Rm 5120 Bethesda, MD 20892-4262 Phone:   301-402-0437 Fax:   301-480-4659 E-Mail:   taic@mail.nih.gov

Biography

I did my undergraduate studies in Zoology and masters in Immunology at National Taiwan University. I had another master studies in Computer and Information Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Before coming to NIH, I worked in Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York City and Goldman, Sachs International Ltd. in London as Programmer Analyst at Information Technology Division for 3 years.

Research

Our lab is focused on developing programs to compare protein structures, to generate more accurate alignments and to parse protein structures into domains in a reliable and rational fashion. We also have interests in studying protein structures with internal symmetry. The long term goal is to discover the sequence-structure relation, the relation between the active sites and the structural types and the evolution of the structure types.

We were assessors in the 6th Community Wide Experiment on the Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP6) for 'Prediction of new folds' and 'Domain prediction' categories in 2004; and again, we are assessing CASP10 for the category of 'Template free modeling' in 2012.

This page was last updated on 3/5/2013.