MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS

We develop and apply various bioinformatics methods, software tools, and databases to gain comprehensive knowledge about the function and structure of interacting proteins that are as yet relatively uncharacterized, but of medical relevance. Currently, our disease focus is on autoinflammatory and neurodegenerative disorders and on viral infections, for instance, on Crohn's and Parkinson's diseases and on the hepatitis C and dengue viruses. Our computational findings support experimentally working cooperation partners in discovering promising candidate genes as well as in prioritizing and interpreting experiments targeted towards elucidating the molecular function of gene products and the cause of diseases.