Research
My research interest and strength broadly defined is to develop algorithms for computational problems
that arise from the unique features of biological data.
My research projects have ranged from genome rearrangements, repeat identification,
whole genome duplications, to high-throughput sequencing analysis, computational epigenomics,
and the study of genetic variations.
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Teaching
Instructor: Discrete Mathematics
Teaching Assistant Mentor: Teaching Methods in Computer Science
Graduate Teaching Assistant: Multiple courses in algorithms and bioinformatics.
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Publications
Peng Q, Ecker JR
"Detection of allele-specific methylation through a generalized heterogeneous epigenome model",
Bioinformatics 2012 28: i163-i171
Abstract and
article
Peng Q, Smith AD
"Multiple assembly from reads alignable to a common reference genome",
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 2011 8(5): 1283-1295
Abstract and
article
Peng Q, Alekseyev M, Tesler G, Pevzner PA
"Decoding the Genomic Architecture of Mammalian and Plant Genomes: Synteny Blocks and Large-Scale Duplications."
Communications in Information and Systems 2010 10(1): 1-22
Abstract and article
Peng Q, Alekseyev M, Tesler G, Pevzner PA
"Decoding Synteny Blocks and Large-Scale Duplications in Mammalian and Plant Genomes."
WABI09 LNCS 5724: 220-232, 2009
Abstract and
article
Chekanova JA*, Gregory BD*, Reverdatto SV, Chen H, Yazaki J, Li P, Skiba N, Peng Q, Alonso J, Brukhin V, Grossniklaus U, Ecker JR, and Belostotsky DA
"Genome-Wide High-Resolution Mapping of Exosome Substrates in the Arabidopsis Transcriptome."
Cell 2007 131: 1340-1353
Abstract and article
Peng Q, Pevzner PA, Tesler G,
"The Fragile Breakage versus Random Breakage Models of Chromosome Evolution."
PLoS Comput Biol. 2006 2(2): e14
Abstract and article
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California-San Diego
M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennesse-Memphis
B.S. in Computer Science, Beijing University