Kevin Liu
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
kliu<at>cs<dot>utexas<dot>edu

Advisor: Professor Tandy Warnow

Research

• Computational biology
• Simultaneous estimation of alignments and trees
  
• Multiple sequence alignment
• Metagenomics
  

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

• K. Liu, S. Raghavan, S. Nelesen, C. R. Linder, T. Warnow, "Rapid and Accurate Large-Scale Coestimation of Sequence Alignments and Phylogenetic Trees," Science, vol. 324, no. 5934, pp. 1561-1564, 19 June 2009, doi: 10.1126/science.1171243.
• K. Liu, S. Nelesen, S. Raghavan, C. R. Linder, T. Warnow, "Barking Up The Wrong Treelength: The Impact of Gap Penalty on Alignment and Tree Accuracy," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 7-21, Jan.-Mar. 2009, doi:10.1109/TCBB.2008.63.
• S. Nelesen, K. Liu, D. Zhao, C. R. Linder, T. Warnow, "The Effect of the Guide Tree on Multiple Sequence Alignments and Subsequent Phylogenetic Analyses," Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, vol. 13, pp. 15-24, 2008. (PDF)
  
  

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