Niranjan

Niranjan Nagarajan

Postdoctoral Fellow (advisor: Mihai Pop)
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology,
and UM Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

Ph.D., Cornell University, 2006 (advisor: Uri Keich)
M.S., Cornell University, 2004
B.A., Ohio Wesleyan University, 2000

niranjan [at] umiacs.umd.edu
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Biomolecular Sciences Bldg #296
College Park, MD 20742
301-405-8804


Niranjan Nagarajan's Research


Research Interests

  • Motif Finding & Computational Statistics
  • Genome Assembly & Metagenomics
  • Misc: Viral Evolution, Protein Domains & Networks, Repeatome Analysis

Recent Papers

  • Niranjan Nagarajan and Uri Keich. Reliability and efficiency of algorithms for computing the significance of the Mann-Whitney test. Computational Statistics (2008).
  • Niranjan Nagarajan, Timothy D. Read and Mihai Pop. Scaffolding and validation of bacterial genome assemblies using optical restriction maps. Bioinformatics (2008) paper, website.
  • Ray Ming et al. The draft genome of the transgenic tropical fruit tree papaya (Carica papaya Linnaeus). Nature (2008) paper.
  • Niranjan Nagarajan and Uri Keich. FAST: Fourier transform based algorithms for significance testing of ungapped multiple alignments. Bioinformatics (2008) paper, website.

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