Bioinformatics: Bioinformatics has a revolutionary impact on the life sciences in areas that extend from fundamental research to current industrial applications. The Department has expertise in multiple areas of bioinformatics: protein modeling, genomics, sequence and microarray expression data, neuroscience imaging and docking.

In June 2003, Stony Brook University hosted the International Conference on MODELING OF PROTEIN INTERACTIONS IN GENOMES. It attracted a large concentration of world top experts in Structural Genomics, focusing on protein interactions in genomes.

In modeling and experimental studies of the segmentation and regulation of development of a fruit fly, the Reinitz lab is dedicated to the solution of fundamental problems in molecular genetics and large scale optimization. They work on two problems: developmental pattern formation and transcription. With respect to pattern formation, they are trying to understand how animals form the blueprint for their body pattern, using the blastoderm of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model system. They are also trying to understand the molecular mechanisms of metazoan transcription, with special emphasis on understanding how collections of binding sites give rise to modular enhancers.