David Sankoff
professor
Mathematic and Statistics
University of Ottawa
Canada
Biography
Dr. Sankoff takes to the development of models, algorithms and statistical inference procedures for the comparative analysis of different genomes. Dr. Sankoff is applying mathematical approaches to the study of genes and genomes. The projects he is undertaking seeks to expand this field on several fronts including: the probabilistic modeling of the evolution of bacteria, protists and higher organisms; and the consequences of mechanisms like chromosome translocation and inversion, and gene and genome duplication for gene order evolution.
Research Interest
Mathematical Genomics, Algorithms, Applied Probability, Computational biology, Bioinformatics, Sociolinguistics.
