Yuan Li
Ph.d. student in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Group
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
University of Central Florida
Educational Background:
Classes Taken:
- Introduction to Bioinformatics
- Special Topic of Algorithms in Computational Molecular Biology
- Special Topics in Computational Genomics
- Genetic Algorithms
- Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- Computational Complexity
- Operating System
- Computer Architecture
- Parallel and Distributed Database
- Categorical Data Analysis
Research Topics:
- Phylogenetic tree construction and analysis
- Site accessibility in the context of ncRNA target prediction
- RNA folding pathways and folding dynamics, energy landscapes
- Novel riboswitch discovery
Publications:
- Yuan Li and Shaojie Zhang, Predicting Folding Pathways between RNA Conformational Structures Guided by RNA Stacks, 245--253, ACM-BCB, 2011, Aug 1-3, Chicago,
IL, USA
- Yuan Li and Shaojie Zhang, TreeLign: Simultaneous Stepwise Alignment and Phylogenetic Positioning, with its Application to Automatic Phylogenetic Assignment of
16S rRNAs, 451--456, ACM-BCB, 2011, Aug 1-3, Chicago, IL, USA
- Yuan Li and Shaojie Zhang, Finding Stable Local Optimal RNA Secondary Structures, Bioinformatics, 27(21) 2994-3001, 2011. (Epub 2011 Sep 8.) Pubmed
- Yuan Li and Shaojie Zhang, Predicting Folding Pathways between RNA Conformational Structures Guided by RNA Stacks, BMC Bioinformatics,Volume 13 Supplement,
2012
Rewards:
- ACM BCB'11 female and minority student travel award.
Service:
- Volunteer for 1st IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and medical Sciences (ICCABS)
Feb. 3-5, 2011, Orlando, Florida
- Additional reviewer for BIBM 2011
Advisor
Dr. Shaojie Zhang