Welcome to the "Computational Methods for Paleogenomics and Comparative Genomics" group of Cedric Chauve, Department of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University.

The research of our group focuses currently on various problems in comparative genomics. We are working on various problems related to phylogenomics (the construction and analysis of gene families and gene trees), genome rearrangements and the reconstruction of ancestral gene orders, pathogen genomics (genotyping, epidemiologic clustering) and cancer genomics. We are also working on machine-learning algorithms for the analysis of large-scale flow cytometry data.

See our Research page for more details.

News and announcements

• June 2019: our paper "Exponentially few RNA structures are designable" has been accepted at ACM BCB 2019.
• May 2019: Cedric gives a talk on our MLST tool MentaLiST at MCEB 2019.
• May 2019: Our paper "HyAsP, a greedy tool for plasmids identification" is available in advance access in Bioinformatics.
• May 2019: Our paper on counting and sampling gene family histories is available on arxiv.
• April 2019: Cedric gives a talk on pathogen genotyping at Institut Pasteur.
• February 2019: Cedric gives a talk on phylogenomics at Alphy 2019.
• November 2018: Cedric gives a talk on genome rearrangements at the Dagstuhl workshop on Genomics, pattern avoidance and statistical mechanics.
• November 2018: Our paper "Alignment-free Clustering of UMI Tagged DNA Molecules" is available in advance access in Bioinformatics.