Ian Holmes

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Professor of Bioengineering
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Research Fields: Biostatistics/Statistics, Clinical Data Analysis, Ecological Modeling, Evolutionary Biology and Phylogenetics, Genomics and Genetics, Machine Learning and Algorithms, Network and Systems Biology, Population Genetics, RNA Biology

DE Student: Annabel Large

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The Holmes Lab brings techniques from machine learning, statistical linguistics, phylogenetics, and web development to bear on the interpretation and analysis of genomic data. Examples include the application of context-free grammars to understanding DNA and RNA structure; the use of phylogenetic methods in genome annotation, and to detect recombination breakpoints; the development of machine learning algorithms for bioinformatics models; the reconstruction of insertion, deletion and transposition events in genome evolutionary histories; statistical algorithms for metagenomics species distribution analysis; and dynamic-HTML web applications for collaborative genomic data analysis.