http://ylog.org/sujai Figuring things out... Tue, 09 Aug 2011 02:59:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Experimental evolution, genetic analysis and genome re-sequencing reveal the mutation conferring artemisinin resistance in an isogenic lineage of malaria parasites by: Paul Hunt, Axel Martinelli, Katarzyna Modrzynska, Sofia Borges, Alison Creasey, Louise Rodrigues, Dario Beraldi, Laurence Loewe, Richard Fawcett, Sujai Kumar, Marian Thomson, Urmi Trivedi, Thomas Otto, Arnab Pain, Mark Blaxter, ... http://ylog.org/sujai/experimental-evolution-genetic-analysis-and-genome-re-sequencing-reveal-the-mutation-conferring-artemisinin-resistance-in-an-isogenic-lineage-of-malaria-parasites Comparing de novo assemblers for 454 transcriptome data by: Sujai Kumar, Mark Blaxter BMC Genomics, Vol. 11, No. 1. (2010), 571. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-11-571 Key: citeulike:8031121 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-11-571 Abstract BACKGROUND:Roche 454 pyrosequencing has become a method of choice for generating transcriptome data from non-model organisms. Once the tens to hundreds of thousands of short (250-450 base) reads ... http://ylog.org/sujai/comparing-de-novo-assemblers-for-454-transcriptome-data Characterization of a hotspot for mimicry: assembly of a butterfly wing transcriptome to genomic sequence at the HmYb/Sb locus by: Laura Ferguson, Siu F. Lee, Nicola Chamberlain, Nicola Nadeau, Mathieu Joron, Simon Baxter, Paul Wilkinson, Alexie Papanicolaou, Sujai Kumar, thuan-Jin Kee, Richard Clark, Claire Davidson, Rebecca Glithero, Helen Beasley, Heiko Vogel, ... http://ylog.org/sujai/113 Analysis of the genome sequences of three Drosophila melanogaster spontaneous mutation accumulation lines Genome Research, Vol. 19, No. 7. (1 July 2009), pp. 1195-1201. by Peter D. Keightley, Urmi Trivedi, Marian Thomson, Fiona Oliver, Sujai Kumar, Mark L. Blaxter http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/gr.091231.109 Abstract We inferred the rate and properties of new spontaneous mutations in Drosophila melanogaster by ... http://ylog.org/sujai/analysis-of-the-genome-sequences-of-three-drosophila-melanogaster-spontaneous-mutation-accumulation-lines While at UCLA in June 2009 for the International C. elegans meeting (www.celegans.org), I took a morning off to explore the La Brea tar pits. Was amazing to see ice age fossils in the heart of LA (5 bus stops from the UCLA campus). http://picasaweb.google.com/sujaikumar2/2009LA http://ylog.org/sujai/2009-ucla March 2009 - Current School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh I am doing a PhD in the evolutionary genomics of nematodes at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh http://ylog.org/sujai/phd-in-evolutionary-genomics http://rollu120.blogspot.com http://ylog.org/sujai/around-the-world-in-120-days Thesis submitted for the MSc Informatics degree at the University of Edinburgh, 2007. Download PDF Title: Evolutionary dynamics of conserved non-coding DNA elements: Big bang or gradual accretion? Abstract: Background Previous studies have found that DNA elements are highly conserved in species from the same lineage, even though they do not code for proteins or ... http://ylog.org/sujai/evolutionary-dynamics-of-conserved-non-coding-dna-elements-big-bang-or-gradual-accretion The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, 2007. The school awards the Informatics Prize to the student who has obtained the highest overall mark for the MSc Informatics class. http://ylog.org/sujai/university-of-edinburgh-informatics-prize September 2007 - September 2008 School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh I worked as the bio-informatician for the Edinburgh Sequencing Facility of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), and the School of Biological Sciences Sequencing Service (SBSSS) of the University of Edinburgh. http://ylog.org/sujai/bioinformatician