Tjorben Completes His Master’s Thesis

Tjorben defended his Master’s thesis at Lübeck University today. His thesis is focused on a web tool he wrote for visualizing the taxonomy of sequenced life, Vitax. Genomic regions present in a given target organism and absent from its closest taxonomic relatives, its neighbors, are the raw material for such diverse tasks as constructing diagnostic markers and discovering the genetic basis of species-specific traits. The elegant user interface of Vitax makes it easy to look up any target organism on the tree of life, visualize its neighbors, and download their genomes.

Like most software, Vitax is a work in progress, and Tjorben is staying on in the Bioinformatics Group to polish it further.