G. W. A. Milne

Research Interests

Chemistry of steroids, terpenes, alkaloids, amino acids, nucleosides, nucleotides and carbohydrates. Applications of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and mass spectrometry to studies in these fields with particular emphasis on the biological function of various members of these classes. Applications of digital computing to problems in the biological sciences. Typical applications include laboratory automation, robotics, quality control and data management and analysis, management of large databases, statistical analysis, curve fitting and general graphical handling of data. Other research goals are the integration of video and audio in a computing environment, intra- and inter-network database management, and the application of modern methodologies to computationally explosive problems, such as DNA/RNA chain sequence analysis.