Dr. Johannes Söding

Protein Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

	Address	Dr. Johannes Söding Department Chemie und Genzentrum München Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25 81377 München Germany
	Phone	+49 (0)89 2180-76742
	Fax	+49 (0)89 2180-76999
	Room	A2.005
	E-Mail	soeding@genzentrum.lmu.de
	Internet	Webseite

• Protein homology detection and protein evolution
• Protein structure and function prediction
• Transcriptional regulation in yeast

• Studied physics at the Universities of Munich, Sussex/UK, and Heidelberg
• 1996 PhD, Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg
• 1996-1998 Postdoc at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris/France
• 1999-2002 Mangement consultant with Boston Consulting Group
• 2002-2007 Staff scientist at the Max-Planck Institute, Tübingen
• Since 2007 Research group leader at the Gene Center, LMU Munich

• Biegert, A. and Söding, J. (2008) De novo identification of highly diverged protein repeats by probabilistic consistency. Bioinformatics. 24, 807-814.
• Fischer, J.D., Mayer, C.E., and Söding, J. (2008) Prediction of protein functional residues from sequence by probability density estimation. Bioinformatics. 24, 612-620.
• Söding, J. (2005) Protein homology detection by HMM-HMM comparison. Bioinformatics 21, 951-960.