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A small bioinformatics team within our lab has developed knowledge based systems to aid in investigations of gene expression on a genome-wide basis."},{"lastName":"Feldman","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6220&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Marcus Feldman","firstName":"Marcus","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Marcus_Feldman","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Jardetzky","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Chemical and Systems Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Chemical and Systems Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4190&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Oleg Jardetzky","firstName":"Oleg","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Oleg_Jardetzky","researchInterest":"Structure, dynamics and function of proteins involved in transport and regulatory processes; high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance studies of conformational transitions and protein folding; study of the mechanism of action of the trp-repressor, ankyrin-domain proteins and the development of programs to calculate protein solution structure"},{"lastName":"Borenstein","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9443&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Elhanan Borenstein","firstName":"Elhanan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Elhanan_Borenstein","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Roughgarden","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6236&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Joan Roughgarden","firstName":"Joan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Joan_Roughgarden","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Plevritis","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4724&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sylvia K. 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