====== Dr Oliver Redfern ======

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===== Post-Doctoral Research fellow =====

I work as part of the Midwest Consortium for Structural Genomics, aiding target selection and analysis of the novelty of the protein structures they produce. In parallel, I also develop methods for homology recognition and function prediction from protein structure and sequence.

===== Academic Background =====
  * 1998-2001 BSc(Hons) First Biochemistry, University of Warwick
  * 2001-2005 PhD Biochemistry (Computational Biology), University College London

===== Research Interests =====

My PhD was focussed on developing novel methods to enhance the speed of structure classification in the CATH database. With this aim, I developed the structure comparison method CATHEDRAL to effectively decompose whole protein structures into their component domains. I have also been involved with the analysis of large, functional diverse domain superfamilies in CATH, and as a consequence have developed a method called FLORA to discriminate between differetn functional families within these superfamilies.

===== Selected Publications =====
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===== Other Interests =====
Current affairs, comedy, whiskey.

===== Links =====

http://www.cathdb.info/cgi-bin/CathedralServer.pl

===== Other CATH Team Members =====

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