Tandy Warnow
Professor
"Department of Computer Science "
University of Texas at Austin
United States of America
Biography
"Dr. Warnow's research combines mathematics, computer science, and statistics to develop improved models and algorithms for reconstructing complex and large-scale evolutionary histories in both biology and historical linguistics. Collaborations My students and I are actively working on developing new methods for estimating alignments and trees (both gene trees and species trees), as well as for taxon identification of metagenomic data. We are currently working with three international research projects, two involved with estimating the Avian phylogeny, and also the Thousand Transcriptome Project (1KP), using our methods to estimate alignments and trees on individual genes, and to estimate species trees from these multi-marker datasets. We welcome collaborations with biologists who have data that are difficult to analyze, either because the datasets are too large for current methods, or because current methods fail to have sufficiently high accuracy."
Research Interest
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Theoretical Computer Science
Publications
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L. Nakhleh, D. Ringe, and T. Warnow. "Perfect Phylogenetic Networks: A New Methodology for Reconstructingthe Evolutionary History of Natural Languages". Language (Journal of the Linguistic Society of America), 81(2):382-420, 2005.
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K. Liu, S. Raghavan, S. Nelesen, C. R. Linder, and T. Warnow. "Rapid and accurate largescale coestimation of sequence alignments and phylogenetic trees." Science, vol. 324, no. 5934, pp. 1561-1564, 19 June 2009.
