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Projects with some reports

This section contains past projects carried out by students in our group. Where we have been given permission, reports on the projects are made available. The projects have been categorised according to the project programme the student was working under.
 

MSc in Applied Statistics 

  

Project Title    

    

Student    

    

Year    

 

Stochastic Modes of Pedigree Generation  

 

Laura McLelland 

 

2011  

 

Evolutionary Models and Machine Learning Patterns  

 

Man Tang  

 

2011  

 

Assembly of Multiple Genomes from Fragments 

 

Cheuk Yiu 

 

2011 

Incremental Pedigree Likelihood Calculation    

    

Shou Zhang    

Sep 2007    

 

Using Probabilistic Models to Infer Infection Rates in Viral Outbreaks    

 

Claire Simons    

  

Feb 2007    

 

ComLab MSc

 

Project Title    

 

Student    

    

Date    

    

Predicting RNA Secondary Structures Including Pseudoknots     

    

Andrey Kravchenko    

    

Sept 2009     

    

Reconstruction of Ancestral Metabolisms     

    

Jose Angel Riarola     

    

Sept 2009     

    

Evolving Language Grammar    

    

Markus Gerstel    

    

Sept 2008    

    

Large-scale comparative annotation of bacterial genomes    

    

Waqar Ali    

    

Aug 2007    

    

Annotation of 12 drosophila genomes using multiple neural networks and evolutionary history    

    

Ulf Schafer    

    

Sept 2006    

     

User interface for recombination analysis     

     

Charles Lin     

     

Sept 2006     

     

Algorithms for haplotype inference from genotypes in the presence of recombination     

     

Syedur Rahman     

     

Sept 2006     

     

Graphical programming interface for an XML-based hidden Markov model compile     

     

Ahmad Chugtai     

     

Sept 2005     

     

Automatic code generation for recursions involving stochastic context-free grammars     

     

Jonathan Churchill     

     

Sept 2005     

 

 

4th Year Mathematics

Project Title     

     

Student     

     

Year     

Likelihood Maximizationylogenic Trees     

Evolving Turing Patterns     

     

James Wood     

Ashley Brooks     

     

Sep 2010     

Feb 2006
     

 

Summer Students

Project Title

Student

Year

Search for life in catalytic reactiion systems

Ina Trolle Andersen, Lin

Nan & Maiken Ina Siegismund

Kjaersgaard

Aug 2010

Modelling coupled evolution of gene regulatory and metabolic networks 

Hong Noh

Aug 2010

Ancestral recombination histories for error detection in genome sequencing  

Chris Campbell, Zi Wang & Qian Yu

Aug 2010

A genetic algorithm for evolving stochastic context-free grammars 

James Anderson, Joe Staines & Paula Tataru

Aug 2010

Spannoid alignment   

Stefan Hansen, Rita Pancsa & Marcus Webb

Aug 2010

Metabolic random fields 

Artemisa Labi & Chris Campbell

Oct 2009

Computational analysis of the regulatory region of vertebrate GSX1 

Syazana Ebil

Oct 2009

Fine scale regulatory annotation of cancer genes 

 Gabor Boross, Cathleen Heil, Andras Gyorgy & Nanette Coetzer 

Aug 2009

Difficult concepts in Systems Biology II: the concept of reduction in systems biology

Nick Tasker & Andrew Stephenson  

Aug 2009

Difficult concepts in Systems Biology III: function and purpose

Nick Tasker

Aug 2009

MCMC and the infinite set model

 Miklos Zoltan Racz  

Aug 2009

Gaussian Processes and Gene Regulation

James Anderson & Chris Choy

Aug 2009

Paths in Markov Chains with applications to protein evolution  

Tomas Fabsic & Andreas Sand Pedersen  

Aug 2009

Population pedigree inference from genomic data 

Jon Ingi Sveinbjornsson & Eirikur Fannar Torfason

Aug 2009

Fine scale regulatory annotation of ORMDL3

Katalin Orosz

Aug 2008

The concept of emergence in systems biology

Angela Matthies, Andrew Stephenson & Nick Tasker

Aug 2008

From exact marginals to better importance sampling

Anders Okholm & Camilla Mondrup Andreassen

Aug 2008

Corner cutting approaches to the Either-Griffiths Tavare recursions

Stephen O'Keeffe & Ferenc Huszar

Aug 2008

Corner cutting in statistical alignment

Jesper Nielsen

Aug 2007

Random drift on probability distributions

 Lu Gram

Aug 2007

On the Monotonicity of HIPP

 Lu Gram

Aug 2007

On recombination induced multiple coalescent events Published in Genetics

Joanna Davies & Frantisek Simancik

 
Oct 2006

Evolving turing patterns

Maria Demidova 

Octo 2006 

Protein Secondary Structures Enumeration

Max Leung

 
Sep 2006

Counting pedigrees up to isomorphism

Tong Chen

Oct 2006 

Combining different grammars to make multiple annotations of a single sequence

Joanna Davies 

Feb 2005 

Gap Attraction: A new measure for whole-genomealignment

Naila Mimouni

2004

 

High School Summer Students  

 

Conrad Godfrey

Aug 2010

RNA secondary structure prediction: the co-transcriptional effect on RNA folding 

Fiona Rust

Aug 2010

Investigation of the number of possible secondary RNA structures with refernece to theoretical expressions

Abigail Linton

Oct 2009

Pattern searching in a single genome

Michelle Parker

Oct 2009

Pattern search in a single genome 

 

Ken Mawhinney

Artemisa Labi

Oct 2008

Aug 2007

Basic models of nucleotide evolution

Counting in Phylogenetics

 

  

  

  

 

  

  

  

DPhil Reports

Joe Herman

Stochastic Models of Structure Evolution

2013

James Anderson

Gaussian Processes and Gene Regulation

2013

Luke Cartey

Advance Software for Generating HMM Code

2011

Marton Munz

Comparative Analysis of Molecular Motion

2011

Joanna Davies

Genetic Heterogeneity and Mapping

2010

Rahul Satija

Statistical Alignment and Footprinting

2009

Aziz Mithani

Evolutionary Modelling and Analysis of Metabolic Networks

2009

 

 

Ben Holtom

A Paralogy Based Strategy for Identifying Regulatory Elements in Mammalian Genomes

2008

Naila Mimouni

An Investigation of Section Constraints on Non-Coding RNAs and Reliability of Alignments

2008

Saskia de Groot

Genome Annotation and Selectional Analysis of Viral Evolution

2007

Lizhong Hao

Analysis of Global Gene Expression during the Epithelium Differentiation

2007

Stephen McCauley

The Annotation and Evolutionary analysis of Overlapping CDS in ssRNA Viral Genomes

 

 2006

 

DTC Projects

Modelling coupled evolution of gene regulatory and metabolic networks

Hong Noh

2010

Integrating prior knowledge to reverse-engineer simple biological systems

Martin Munz

2008

Hidden Markov modelling of single molecular FRET trajectories

Brian Cheung

 

A phylogenetic model for the prediction of quantitative characteristics and applications to cardiac modelling  

Richard Mann

2008

Applications of process algebra in systems biology  

Nicolas Wu

2006

Grammar and phylogenies

Robin Ryder

2006

Evolution of metabolic networks

Eleni Giannoulatou

2006

How many transcripts does it take to reconstruct the splice graph?

Paul Jenkins 

2006 

Identifying gene clusters and regulatory themes using time course expression data, hidden Markov models and transcription factor information

Karen Lees

2004

Hidden Markov models for protein sequence alignment

Naila Mimouni

2004

The hunt for genomic dark matter: aligning non-coding functional DNA

Naila Mimouni

2004 

An analysis of the relative efficacy of the Nussinov-Felenstein and the Knudsen-Hein RNA Secondary structure prediction algorithms

Stephen McCauley

2004 


Some of Jotun Hein's earlier students who still work in this field are Carsten Wiuf, Bjarne Knudsen, Jakob Skou Pedersen, Rune Lyngsoe, Christian Storm Pedersen, Roald Forsberg and Rasmus Nielsen.