Niranjan Nagarajan

Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Department of Computer Science and UM Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

Ph.D., Cornell University, 2006 (advisor: Uri Keich)
MS, Cornell University, 2004
BA, 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

Research Interests

Genome Assembly - Algorithmic problems in assembly of data from next-generation sequencers, Hybrid assembly of disparate data, Use of optical maps to quide sequence assembly
Motif Finding - Searching for patterns in biological sequence data
Computational Statistics - Efficient exact algorithms for commonly used statistical tests
Protein Families, Structure and Function - Protein domain prediction, Mining motifs that predict protein-protein interactions (Machine Learning)
Misc - Comparing phylogenies, Annotating Transposable Elements, Metagenomics

Recent Papers

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, Uri Keich. FAST: Fourier transform based algorithms for significance testing of ungapped multiple alignments. Bioinformatics (2008) paper, website.