Niranjan

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.
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