DNA Nanotechnology
                        -Design and characterization of DNA nanostructures

                Multiplex PCR
                        -Algorithm for multiplex PCR primer design
                        -Greed heuristic, outpeforms generic search algorithms by many orders of magnitude

		Synthetic Gene Construction (CODA Genomics)
                        -Distrubuted thermodynamic predictions
			-Error rate reduction

		Site-directed Mutagenesis
			-Computational prediction of success/failure
			-Improvement of efficiency

                Machine Learning
		Data Mining
                Computational Biology
		Systems Biology
		Biophysics
		Artificial Intelligence
                Financial Markets

• "Computationally Optimized DNA Assembly of Synthetic Genes," Larsen, L.S. Z., Wassman, C.D., Hatfield, G.W., and Lathrop, R.H. (submitted)
• "Predicting oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis failures in protein engineering," Wassman, C.D., Tam, P.Y., Lathrop, R.H., Weiss, G.A., Nucleic Acids Res., (2004).

• "Method for producing a synthetic gene or other DNA sequence," Lathrop, Richard H.; Larsen, Liza S.Z.; Wassman, Christopher; Hatfield, G. Wesley; United States patent application #20050106590 (submitted 2005).