The DKE Laboratory, established in 1991, is a research facility in the Department of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), New Jersey's Science and Technology University, devoted to the area of data and knowledge engineering. The Laboratory is actively engaged in both forward looking research projects and applied research projects, designing novel algorithms and tools and tackling problems facing today's database and knowledge engineers.

The Laboratory has a four-part mission:

• Develop instructional programs to train NJIT students in data and knowledge management skills demanded by industry.
• Facilitate joint research efforts between researchers in academia and industry.
• Provide infrastructure to support cutting edge research in data, information, and knowledge management.
• Engage in cross-disciplinary research efforts with partners in the country and around the world.

The Laboratory has three major goals:

• Enrich educational programs offered by NJIT in the areas of data and knowledge management as well as their applications in science, engineering and biology informatics.
• Promote, foster and support collaborative efforts between NJIT and industry and between NJIT and research units in national and international laboratories and organizations.
• Advance the state of the art in data and knowledge engineering by investigating and exploring fundamental research issues such as data integration, mining, cleaning and searching in scientific, biological, and modern databases.

The BIOLSI Laboratory, co-located with the DKE Laboratory, is a research facility in the Department of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey's Science and Technology University, devoted to the area of bioinformatics and life science informatics. The BIOLSI Laboratory shares the same mission and goals as the DKE Laboratory, with a focus on interdisciplinary research and education. The BIOLSI Laboratory is a participant of the Joint Biomedical Engineering PhD Program offered by the University of Medicine and Dentistry-New Jersey Medical School and NJIT, the Quantitative Neurosciences Doctoral Training Program funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the MS in Computational Biology Program funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Current research efforts concentrate on data mining and database management in comparative genomics, phylogenomics and genetics, RNA genomics, regulatory genomics, systems biology, cheminformatics, quantitative neurosciences, and neuroinformatics.

Current and past research projects conducted in the DKE and BIOLSI Laboratories include MDSDB (Motif Discovery in Scientific Databases), PDCDB (Pattern Discovery in Combinatorial Databases), ASES (Approximate Search Engine for Structure), RADAR (RNA Data Analysis and Research), PhyloGO (Phylogenetic Gene Ontology) and ChemMiner.

Thanks for visiting our Laboratories. We look forward to hearing from you.

Jason T. L. Wang, Ph.D.
Lab Director