Research

My current work lies in the creation of algorithms and data structures with applicatios in computational molecular biology. Specifically, this involves identifying and creating algorithms which can aid biological research. I also work on string algorithms with applications in pattern matching and sequence comparison.

Tools I have helped to design, implement and maintain:

SMART - a tool to identify supermaximal approximate repeats in a sequence.

MARS - a heuristic tool for multiple circular sequence alignment given a set of circular sequences.

hCED - a heuristic tool for cyclic edit distance computation given a pair of circular sequences.

IsoXpressor - a tool to assess transcriptional activity within isochores.

CNEFinder - a tool for the identification of conserved non-coding elements in genomes.