Ioannis-Alexandros Spyropoulos MSc student. spyropbiol.uoa.gr EDUCATION 2004-now Bioinformatics Postgraduate Programme (MSc) in the Faculty of Biology, University of Athens. Supervisor: Professor Stavros J. Hamodrakas 1999-2004 Undergraduate studies (BSc) in the Faculty of Biology, University of Athens. Diploma Thesis: "Representation of transmembrane proteins. The TMRPres2D tool." Supervisor: Professor Stavros J. Hamodrakas RESEARCH INTERESTS 1. Programming in 2D and 3D graphics for biological data (mainly protein structural data). Applications in OpenGL, JAVA3D, GIMP. 2. Development of web interfaces for mining and manipulating data from sql databases. 3. Development of machine learning techniques for extracting structural features in proteins. PUBLICATIONS Search in Elefsinioti, A.L., Bagos, P.G., Spyropoulos, I.C., Hamodrakas, S.J. (2004) A database for G proteins and their interaction with GPCRs. BMC Bioinformatics, 5(1): 208. [Abstract] [PDF] Spyropoulos, I.C., Liakopoulos, T.D., Bagos, P.G. and Hamodrakas, S.J. (2004) TMRPres2D: high quality visual representation of transmembrane protein models. Bioinformatics, [Epub ahead of print] [Abstract] [PDF] Bagos, P.G., Liakopoulos, T.D., Spyropoulos, I.C. and Hamodrakas, S.J. (2004) PRED-TMBB: A web server for predicting the topology of β-barrel outer membrane proteins. Nucleic Acids Res, 32, W400-404. [Abstract] [PDF] Bagos P.G., Liakopoulos T.D., Spyropoulos I.C. and Hamodrakas S.J. (2004) A Hidden Markov Model capable of predicting and discriminating β-barrel outer membrane proteins. BMC Bioinformatics, 2004, 5:29. [Abstract] [PDF] Magkrioti CK, Spyropoulos IC, Iconomidou VA, Willis JH, Hamodrakas SJ. (2004) cuticleDB: a relational database of Arthropod cuticular proteins. BMC Bioinformatics. 5(1):138. [Abstract] [PDF]