Computational Genomic Signatures

Ozkan Ufuk Nalbantoglu earned his B.S. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Bogazici University, Turkey, in 2004, and his Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, in 2011, where he currently continues his research. His main research interest is in discovering the patterns in the organization of life and capturing trends in evolution. Specifically, he conducts computational studies of biological data with the concepts employed from information theory and signal processing. He is passionate about the inductive reasoning and corresponding engineering applications in life sciences, and he believes that this interdisciplinary paradigm shift will shape the face of science. Khalid Sayood received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester, in 1977 and 1979, respectively, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, in 1982. He joined the University of Nebraska in 1982 where he currently serves as the Heins Professor of Engineering. From 1995 to 1996, he served as the founding head of the Computer Vision and Image Processing group at the Turkish National Research Council Informatics Institute. His principal research interest is in how information is organized in data. He is the author of Introduction to Data Compression and the editor of the Handbook of Lossless Compression. He has also authored and co-authored a number of books published by Morgan-Claypool.

• Genome Signatures, Definition and Background.- Other Computational Characterizations as Genome Signatures.- Measuring Distance of Biological Sequences Using Genome Signatures.- Applications: Phylogeny Construction.- Applications: Metagenomics.- Applications: Horizontal DNA Transfer Detection.