Bonnie Kirkpatrick
587 Soda
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
(510) 642-3560
bbkirk AT eecs DOT berkeley DOT edu
 
As a Computer Science graduate student at UC Berkely, my interest focuses on computational genetics with an emphasis on pedigrees and phylogenetic analysis.

Information
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Publications in Refereed Journals and Conferences
B. Kirkpatrick, C. Santos-Armendariz, R. M. Karp, and E. Halperin. HaploPool: Improving Haplotype Frequency Estimation through DNA Pools and Phylogenetic Modeling. Bioinformatics. 23: 3048-3055. 2007. (pdf)

A. Zemla, B. Geisbrecht, J. Smith, M. Lam, B. Kirkpatrick, M. Wagner, T. Slezak, C. Zhou. STRALCP - Structure Alignment-based Clustering of Proteins. Nucleic Acids Research, 2007. ( advance access)

X. Tang, B. Kirkpatrick, S. Thomas, G. Song, and N. Amato. Using motion planning to study RNA folding kinetics. Int. Conf. Comput. Molecular Biology (RECOMB), 2004. pp. 252-261. (ps, pdf) abstract

B. M. Mumey, B. W. Bailey, B. Kirkpatrick, A. J. Jesaitis, T. Angel, and E. A. Dratz. A new method for mapping discontinuous antibody epitopes to reveal structural features of proteins. J. of Computational Biology, 2003. Vol. 10, No. 3-4:555-567. (pdf)

Software
HaploPool -- a program for estimating haplotype frequencies from genotypes

Resources and Class Projects
Career Opportunities for EECS PhDs
CIPRES Graduate Student Retreat
B. Kirkpatrick, S. Lacoste-Julien, and W. Xu. 2004. Analyzing Root DNS Traffic: A systems perspective. CS 262a final.
B. Kirkpatrick, S. Lacoste-Julien, and W. Xu. 2004. Analyzing Root DNS Traffic: A machine learning perspective. CS 281a final.
B. Kirkpatrick and B. Klingner. 2004. Turing's Imitation Game: A discussion with the benefit of hind-sight. CS Classics with C.H. Papadimitriou.

Links
MSU Web Page
TAMU Web Page