Lenwood Heath
Location: (Blacksburg, VA)
Personal Research Web Page: http://www.cs.vt.edu/user/23
Keywords: Algorithms, computational biology, bioinformatics, graph theory, computational geometry, symbolic computation, text mining
Posted on: Monday, May 9th, 2011
Broad Research Area: Databases / Information Retrieval / Data Mining, Scientific/Medical Informatics, Theory / Algorithms
Research Interests:
My background is in theoretical computer science, especially algorithms. My current research interests are in several areas of computational biology and bioinformatics. I am especially interested in genomics and the analysis and manipulation of genomic sequences. An example is the study of genomic signatures that can be used to identify which organism a “new” sequence comes from. Another example is an advanced kind of genome compression, supporting both efficient storage and transmission as well as efficient information retrieval and manipulation. Also, I am interested in analyzing or mining genomic sequences to identify evolutionary phenomena such as convergent evolution, gene conversion, and retrogenes.
Finally, I am contributing my expertise to the analysis of a metagenomics project.
The following NSF grant was recently awarded:
http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1062472
Contact Information:
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Phone: 540-231-4352
