Systems biology in Bacillus subtilis [Elektronische Ressource] : databases for gene function and software tools for pathway discovery / submitted by Lope Andrés Flórez Weidinger

Systems biology in Bacillus subtilis: databases for gene function and software tools for pathway discovery PhD Thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree “Doctor rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. nat.)” in the Molecular Biology Program at the Georg August University Göttingen, Faculty of Biology submitted by Lope Andrés Flórez Weidinger born in Bogotá, Colombia 2010 Members of the Thesis Committee: Prof. Dr. Jörg Stülke (Supervisor and Reviewer) Department for General Microbiology Institute for Microbiology and Genetics Georg-August-University of Göttingen Göttingen Prof. Dr. Burkhard Morgenstern (Reviewer) Department of Bioinformatics Institute for Microbiology and Genetics Georg-August-University of Göttingen Göttingen Prof. Dr. Christian Griesinger Department of NMR-based structural biology Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen stDate of the oral examination: November 1 , 2010 I hereby declare that the PhD thesis entitled, “Systems Biology in Bacillus subtilis: databases for gene function and software tools for pathway discovery” has been written independently and with no other sources and aids than quoted. Lope Andrés Flórez Weidinger Acknowledgements Acknowledgements The last four years in Göttingen, especially the last three years as a graduate student at the Department of General Microbiology, have passed in the blink of an eye.