Brian Fristensky

Associate Professor
Plant Science
Canada

Professor Microbiology
Biography

Ph.D. student Abiel Roche (Computer Science) is investigating the application of a class of Finite State Automata, called Transducers, to the comparison of biological networks between different species, or between members of the same species in different experimental conditions. The goal is to develop metrics for quantifying the differences between congruent pathways, and for identifying subnetworks that are congruent between larger networks.

Research Intrest

Genome assembly and annotation, transcriptomics, database management, end-user software development

List of Publications
Hadwiger, L.A., Fristensky, B., and Riggleman, R.C. (1984) Chitosan, a natural regulator in plant-fungal pathogen interactions, increases crop yields. in Chitin, Chitosan, and Related Enzymes ,pp 291-302. John P. Zikakis,Ed., Academic Press.
Yang, R.C.A., Fristensky, B., Deutch, A.H., Huang, R.C., Tan, Y.H., Narang, S.A., and Wu, R. (1983) The nucleotide sequence of a new human repetitive DNA consists of eight tandem repeats of 66 base pairs. Gene 25:59-66.
Fristensky, B., Lis, J.T. and Wu, R. (1982) Portable microcomputer software for nucleotide sequence analysis. Nucleic Acids Research 10:6451-6463.