Loading
Home > Research Projects

Research and Software

To request software or research articles, please email istrail.lab@gmail.com and Professor Istrail sorin@cs.brown.edu

Computational Models of SNPs and Disease Associations

HAPCOMPASS: A fast algorithm for accurate haplotype assembly
  • Given a set of aligned sequence reads in a SAM file and a set of variant calls in VCF format, HAPCOMPASS will assemble reads into haplotypes
Tractatus: an exact and subquadratic algorithm for inferring identity-by-descent multi-shared haplotype tracts
  • Given a set of haplotypes or genotypes, Tractatus will compute a set of identical-by-descent multi-shared haplotypes or runs of homozygosity
DELISHUS: An algorithm for detecting deletions in shared haplotypes using SNPs
  • An algorithmic framework for finding inherited and de novo deletions in a GWAS SNP dataset consisting of trios or pairs
Long-range Trio-Phaser
  • A long-range haplotype phasing tool developed for GWAS SNP datasets consisting of trios
Imperfect Ancestral Recombination Graph (iARG)
  • A collection of tools to reconstruct evolutionary histories which include recombination and back/recurrent mutation events

Genomic Regulatory Networks and the Regulatory Genome

Cyrene - cis-Lexicon and cis-Browser
  • A database and genome browser for cis-regulatory information
  • sea urchin developmental gene regulatory networks
  • building a high-resolution transcriptome map of the embryo
  • inferring logic functions of genomic cis-regulatory code and the principles of information processing of genomic regulation

CELLARIUM: An Integrated Framework for Genome Browsers and Bioinformatics Workflows

Virtual Sea Urchin
  • 4D Map of the purple sea urchin developmental process
Ariadne
  • A browser for processing population genomics workflows

Medical Bioinformatics and Beyond

Cancer Diagnosis
  • An automated algorithm to determine the level of malignancy of images of tumor biopsies
Viral Immunology and Comparative Immunopeptidomics of Humans and their Pathogens
Rabbit genome project (Genetic determinants of sudden cardiac death)

Algorithmic Theory of Protein Folding and Misfolding

ProFOLDING
  • Discrete models and algorithms for protein folding
  • Graph Theory of Self avoiding Walks
  • Contact Maps and Protein Structure
  • Energy Function Inference
  • PDB Structure Alignment
  • Lattice Protein Folding Algorithms with mathematically guaranteed Error Bound

Statistical Mechanics and Computational Complexity

The Rise and Fall of the Search for the Three-Dimensional Exactly Solvable Statistical Mechanics Models

Education and the Classroom

Assembly Simulator
  • A genome assembly simulator written in Mathematica
Genomathica
  • A library of Mathematica tools and software for bioinformatics education and simulation.
  • Genomathica is currently under construction in preparation for its first release.