Prof. Dr. Falk Schreiber

Institute of Computer Science Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg Von-Seckendorff-Platz 1 06120 Halle, Germany		Bioinformatics IPK Gatersleben (Leibniz Institute) Corrensstraße 3 06466 Gatersleben, Germany
tel.: +49 345 5524770 falk.schreiber@informatik.uni-halle.de		tel.: +49 39482 5753 schreibe@ipk-gatersleben.de

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Personal

	since 2007	Professor (Chair for Bioinformatics) Institute of Computer Science Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany and Coordinator Bioinformatics Bioinformatics IPK Gatersleben (Leibniz Institute), Germany
	since 2012	Adjunct Professor Faculty of Information Technology Monash University (Melbourne), Australia
	2006	Habilitation in Computer Science (Dr. habil.)
	2003-2007	Head of Research Group IPK Gatersleben, Germany
	2001-2002	Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer with Prof. Peter Eades School of Information Technologies The University of Sydney, Australia
	2001	Ph.D. in Computer Science (Dr. rer. nat.)
	1997-2001	Research Fellow and Lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) with Prof. Dr. Franz J. Brandenburg Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Passau, Germany
	1997	Diploma in Computer Science (minor: Medical Computer Science) Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Passau, Germany

Topical

Vanted 2.1 supporting more data analysis, modelling and visualisation pipelines is now available!

MetaCrop 2.0 with extended content, new web-services and more is now online!

New crop plant metabolism models and model applications published (see Publications).

Upcoming conferences

Books

Research

Areas of research

My research is focused on

Teaching

		I have taught computer science and bioinformatics courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the University of Passau (Germany), The University of Sydney (Australia), the Technical University of Dortmund (Germany), the University of Kiel (Germany) and the University of Halle (Germany).
	Current courses

winter term
2012/2013

Bioinformatics for Biologists and Agronomists (lecture)
Programming projects

summer term
2013

Analysis of Biological Networks (lecture)
Programming projects

Software (selected tools)

I have developed/managed the development of several software tools. Major freely available tools are:

		Vanted Analysis and visualisation of multimodal data in the context of biological networks. Extensions based on Vanted address, for example, metabolic modelling (FBA-SimVis), an information system for experimental data (DBE2), and spatial data investigations/image processing (Hive). Vanted is a leading network analysis and visualisation tool used in several projects and collaborations.
		SBGN-ED & KGML-ED Editing, validation, and interactive navigation of KEGG pathways and SBGN (Systems Biology Graphical Notation) maps. SBGN-ED has been voted 2010 and 2011 to be the best software for the SBGN standard.
		Meta-All & MetaCrop Databases/information systems for multi-level representation of metabolic processes (Meta-All) and special instance of the system for detailed plant metabolism (MetaCrop). MetaCrop is not only a large collection of manually curated pathways and metabolic information in crop plants, but also a repository for metabolic models.
		HTPheno Image analysis pipeline for high throughput plant phenotyping
		MAVisto, CentiBiN & CentiLib Investigation of structural network properties (motifs, centralities, and global graph properties) especially for biological networks. Initially stand-alone programs, the newer developments are now part of the Vanted toolssuite and further developed there.
		BioPath Representation, visualisation, and exploration of biochemical pathways; an electronic version of the Boehringer pathway chart.

Publications


	Complete list of publications
	Selected books	Ina Koch, Wolfgang Reisig and Falk Schreiber: Modeling in Systems Biology: The Petri Net Approach Springer, 2011. This book deals with modeling of biochemical networks (metabolism, regulation, signaling) based on Petri net theory. It serves as text book for biologists who want to model biochemical systems using Petri nets as well as for computer scientists who are interested in biological applications. Björn H. Junker and Falk Schreiber: Analysis of Biological Networks Wiley, 2008. This book deals with methods for the analysis of biological networks. The first part introduces network analysis algorithms such as centralities, motifs, clustering and general network properties, and the second part studies the usage of these methods for the investigation of different biological networks ranging from molecular networks (gene regulation, protein interaction, metabolism) to ecological and phylogenetical networks.
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last revised: 02/05/2013