Benjamin Bowen
Bioinformaticist Staff Scientist
Building: 91, Room 110H2
Mail Stop: 100PGF100
Phone: (480) 225-2341
BPBowen@lbl.gov
http://openmsi.nersc.gov
Links
Research Interests
Understanding biological mechanisms associated with change.
Understanding complex, dynamic metabolic networks in an environmental context will require utilization of emerging technologies. These datasets generated are often large-scale both in terms of complexity and raw-size making them difficult to mine for biological insight. Ben is leading the OpenMSI and Metabolite Atlas efforts to make the most high-performance, advanced data management, model building, analysis and visualization resources for mass spectrometry accessible to all scientists via the web.
Programs & Initiatives
- OpenMSI
- Metabolite Atlas
- Biochemical Modeling
- Compound Discovery and Identification
Recent Publications
Related News
When Marine Algae Get Sick: How Viruses Shape Microbe Interactions
Researchers in the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division collaborated on a study to better understand the role of viruses that infect photosynthetic phytoplankton in the marine food web.
EcoFAB: A Tool for Combating Climate Change and Training the Next Generation
Fabricated ecosystems—EcoFABs—are plastic, takeout box–sized growth chambers developed at Berkeley Lab to be a standardized and reproducible platform for conducting experiments on model plants and the microbes that live around their roots. A greater understanding of how plants and microbes work together to store vast amounts of atmospheric carbon in the soil will help in the design of better bioenergy crops for the fight against climate change.
JGI-Enabled Research Finds Flagella in the Terrestrial Roots of Marine Bacteria
Ancient Chloroflexotas ditched their flagella and other traits when migrating back to the ocean.
