Students

Current Students:

Boris Shabash, MSc (2011), PhD (In Progress)

MSc Thesis: Improving the Portability and Performance of jViz.RNA, a Dynamic RNA Visualization Software

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Former Students:

Wenbo Jiang, MSc (2011)

Wenbo Jiang

MSc Thesis: Improving the Search Efficiency of a Covariance Model for RNA Homology Search

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Nicholas Erho, MSc (2010)

MSc Thesis: RNA Gene Discovery Through the Classification of RNA Secondary Structure Elements

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Andrew Hendriks, MSc (2005), PhD (2010)

PhD Thesis: A Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm for RNA Secondary Structure Prediction

MSc Thesis: A Parallel Evolutionary Algorithm for RNA Secondaty Structure Prediction

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Denny Chen Dai, PhD (ABT)

PhD Thesis: Machine Learning Techniques for the RNA Design Problem

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Edward Glen, MSc (2007)

MSc Thesis: jViz.RNA - A Tool for Visual Comparison and Analysis of RNA Secondary Structure

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Herbert H. Tsang, PhD (2007)

PhD Thesis: SARNA-Predict: A Permuation-Based Simulated Annealing Algorithm fo RNA Secondary Structure Prediction

Postdoctoral Research Project (2007-2009): RNA Secondary Structure Prediction

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Jagdeep Poonian, MSc (2007)

MSc Thesis: DPA-RNAPredict: A Dynamic Programming Algorithm for RNA Secondary Structure Prediction






Lenny Tang, MSc (2007)

MSc Thesis: A Three-Dimensional Computational Model for the Growth of Multicellular
Tissues and its Parallel Implementation on a Cluster

(co-supervised by Dr. Belgacem Ben Youssef)

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Alain Deschênes, MSc (2005)

MSc Thesis: A Genetic Algorithm for RNA Secondary Structure Prediction Using Stacking Energy Thermodynamic Models

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Kirt Noel, MASc (2005)

MSc Thesis: Examining Stem-Loops as Sequence Signals for Identifying Structural RNA Genes






Anastasia Fedynak, MASc (2004), PhD (2007)

Transfered to PhD program in MBB at SFU

PhD Thesis: Quantifying Trends in Bacterial Virulance and Pathogen-associated genes through large scale bioinformatics analysis