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Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies · Molecular Biology

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Publications403
Citations24,754

Grants

17 total · 1 active

NSF #2402559

Collaborative Research: OAC Core: Cyber-Infrastructure for Community Detection, Extraction, and Search in Large Networks

Active
Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2024-07-15 → 2027-06-30
PIs
2

Awarded at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

NSF #2006069

IIBR Informatics: Advancing Bioinformatics Methods using Ensembles of Profile Hidden Markov Models

Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2020-08-15 → 2025-07-31
PIs
2

Awarded at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

NSF #1458652

ABI Innovation: New methods for multiple sequence alignment with improved accuracy and scalability

Amount
$800K–$900K
Period
2015-08-15 → 2021-07-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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All Grants

17 total · 1 active

NSF #2402559

Collaborative Research: OAC Core: Cyber-Infrastructure for Community Detection, Extraction, and Search in Large Networks

Active
Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2024-07-15 → 2027-06-30
PIs
2

Awarded at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

NSF #2006069

IIBR Informatics: Advancing Bioinformatics Methods using Ensembles of Profile Hidden Markov Models

Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2020-08-15 → 2025-07-31
PIs
2

Awarded at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

NSF #1458652

ABI Innovation: New methods for multiple sequence alignment with improved accuracy and scalability

Amount
$800K–$900K
Period
2015-08-15 → 2021-07-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

NSF #1535977

AitF: Full: Collaborative Research: Graph-theoretic algorithms to improve phylogenomic analyses

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2015-09-01 → 2020-08-31
PIs
2

Awarded at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

NSF #1513629

III: AF: Medium: Collaborative Research: Scalable and Highly Accurate Methods for Metagenomics

Amount
$600K–$700K
Period
2015-09-01 → 2020-08-31
PIs
2

Awarded at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

NSF #1461364

Collaborative Research: Novel Methodologies for Genome-scale Evolutionary Analysis of Multi-locus data

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2014-08-16 → 2016-06-30
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

NSF #1062335

Collaborative Research: Novel Methodologies for Genome-scale Evolutionary Analysis of Multi-locus data

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2011-07-01 → 2014-10-31
PIs
2

Awarded at University of Texas at Austin

NSF #0733029

Collaborative Research: Large-scale simultaneous multiple alignment and phylogeny estimation

Amount
$1M–$2M
Period
2007-10-01 → 2014-09-30
PIs
2

Awarded at University of Texas at Austin

NSF #0715370

Information Technology Research (ITR): Building the Tree of Life -- A National Resource for Phyloinformatics and Computational Phylogenetics

Amount
—
Period
2006-10-01 → 2010-09-30
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Texas at Austin

NSF #0331453

Information Technology Research (ITR): Building the Tree of Life -- A National Resource for Phyloinformatics and Computational Phylogenetics

Amount
—
Period
2003-10-01 → 2009-09-30
PIs
5

Awarded at University of Texas at Austin

NSF #0121680

Collaborative Research: ITR/AP Reconstructing Complex Evolutionary Histories

Amount
—
Period
2001-09-15 → 2009-08-31
PIs
5

Awarded at University of Texas at Austin

NSF #0312830

ITR: Collaborative Research, Algorithms for Inferring Reticulate Evolution in Historical Linguistics

Amount
—
Period
2003-08-01 → 2009-07-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Texas at Austin

NSF #0331654

Information Technology Research (ITR): Building the Tree of Life -- A National Resource for Phyloinformatics and Computational Phylogenetics

Amount
—
Period
2003-10-01 → 2007-05-31
PIs
5

Awarded at University of New Mexico

NSF #0121682

`ITR/AP: Collaborative Research: Exploring the Tree of Life

Amount
$700K–$800K
Period
2001-09-15 → 2005-08-31
PIs
2

Awarded at University of Texas at Austin

NSF #0096275

NSF Young Investigator: Computational Problems in Evolutionary Tree Construction

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2000-01-01 → 2000-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Texas at Austin

NSF #9457800

NSF Young Investigator: Computational Problems in Evolutionary Tree Construction

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
1994-09-01 → 2000-07-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Pennsylvania

NSF #9512092

Character Based Methods for Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Natural Language

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
1995-08-01 → 1999-07-31
PIs
3

Awarded at University of Pennsylvania

Recent Public Signals

  1. New paper: CAMUS: scalable phylogenetic network estimation (Bioinformatics)2026-07-01
  2. New preprint: Modeling the Global Citation Network using the Scalable Agent-based Simulator for Citation Analysis with Recency-emphasized Sampling (SASCA-ReS)2026-04-21
  3. New NSF award: Collaborative Research: OAC Core: Cyber-Infrastructure for Community Detection, Extraction, and Search in Large Networks2024-07-15

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