Research

Research themes

• Bioinformatics or Computational Biology: a short definition of the field
• Algorithms, Combinatorics, Statistics
• Genomics and Biology

Detailed interests

• Bioinformatics:
  • Detection and analysis of sequence repeats
  • Methods for sequence comparison and analysis
  • Similarity searching
  
  
  
• String algorithms, combinatorics, and statistics:
  • Combinatorics of periods
  • Statistics of the vocabulary of random texts
  • Alignment algorithms and complexity
  • String-to-string correction problem
  
  
  
• Genomics and biology:
  • Evolution of Genomic Repeated Sequences
  • Minisatellites analysis and evolution
  • Microsatellites in genomes
  • EST clustering

Funding since 1999

ACI IMPBio:

2004-2007, RepEvol, Evolution of Repeated Sequences, principal investigator.

BioSTIC:

2004-2005, Evolution of Tandemly Repeated Sequences, investigator.

Action Spécifique "ASIM":

Text Indexing and Motifs Discovery ( "Indexation de texte et découverte de motifs" in French), 2003-2004, coordinator.

Action Spécifique "AS":

Algorithms and Sequences ("Algorithmes et Séquences" in French), 2002-2003, coordinator.

Action Spécifique "ALBIO":

Algorithms in Bioinformatics, 2002-2003, work group coordinator.

Inter-EPST Bioinformatics Project:

2000-2002, Evolution of Genomic Repeated Sequences, principal investigator.

Miscellaneaous

• List of students and collaborators
  
  
• Complete publication list (PDF format - in French)
  
  
• Dossier d'habilitation (in French)

This document was translated from L^AT_EX by H^EV^EA.