Zhang

Louxin Zhang (张洛欣)

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science,
NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, and
Adjunct Associate Prof., Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore

10 Lower Kent Ridge, Singapore 119076
Tel: (65-)6516-6579
Fax: (65-)6779-5452
E-mail: matzlx(AT)nus(DOT)edu(DOT)sg
Office: S17-08-05

Education BSci, MSci (Lanzhou) in Math,Ph.D (Waterloo) in Computer Science

Research Interests

Bioinformatics and computational biology.
Discrete algorithm design and analysis, theory of computing,
Applied combinatorial mathematics.

Publications

Sequence Comparison and other books
Papers in computational biology and bioinformatics
Some papers in other fields

Current Research Projects

Bioinformatics approach to reconstructing ancestral genomes (April 2008 - March 2011, $132,480.00). (Watch David Haussler, a coauthor, on TV: The Reverse Evolution Machine)
Rapid alignment methods for biological network comparison (April 2010 - March 2013, $724,020.00).

Software Tools (by me)

WebPHYLIP: Atool facilitating phylogenetic analysis. It is available upon request by sending email to matzlx@nus.edu.sg.Here is our two-page article on it. Click here to download it.

Professional Services

Conference PC member:
     WABI'11(Saarbr點ken, Germany), CoCoon'11(Dallas, USA), BIBE'11(Taichung, Taiwan), RECOMB CG'11(Ireland), Bioinformtics 2011 (Rome, Italy), APBC'11(Incheon, Korea), GIW'11(Bushan, Korea),

Journal Editorial Board member:
    Int. J. of Bioinformatics Res. and Appl.
    Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
    Algorithms(MDPI, Open-Access)

Some of my collaborators and coauthors

Kun-Mao Chao (Nat'l Taiwan Uninversity)
Kwok Pui Choi (Nat'l University of Singapore)
Aaron Darling (University of California at Davis)
Ming Li (University of Waterloo)
Bin Ma (University of Waterloo)
Jian Ma (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Webb Miller (Penn State Univeristy)
Franco P. Preparata (Brown University)
Jian Shen (Texas State University)
Mike Steel (University of Canterbury)
Lusheng Wang (City University of Hong Kong)

Former group members

Yang Jialiang (CAS-MPG Partner Institute of Computation Biology, CAS, China)
Ning Kang (Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and BioProcessing Tech, CAS, China)
Tan Jinsong
Cam Thach Nguyen (Ph.D student in computer science, University of Washington)

We are looking for potential Master or Ph.D students for computational and mathematical biology research. One can apply through Department of Mathmatics if you have background in mathematics, or through Department of Biochemistry and NUSGraduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering otherwise

MA3259: Mathematical Methods in Genomics

This is my personal webpage. Last modified in March, 2011.