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Overview

Sorin Istrail is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and works primarily in the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research covers subfields such as Molecular Biology, Genetics, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Ecology.

Their research topics include:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
  • Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Algorithms and Data Compression

Istrail has contributed to several recent publications in notable venues. These papers include:

  • Proteinarium: Multi-sample protein-protein interaction analysis and visualization tool (2020), published in Genomics
  • Combinatorial and statistical prediction of gene expression from haplotype sequence (2020), published in Bioinformatics
  • Michael Waterman's Contributions to Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (2022), published in Journal of Computational Biology
  • Invariant Patterns in Crystal Lattices: Implications for Protein Folding Algorithms (2020), published in TUGraz OPEN Library (Graz University of Technology)
  • Preface Special Issue: RECOMB 2018 (2020), published in Journal of Computational Biology

The main publication venues in which they have produced work are:

  • Journal of Computational Biology
  • Genomics
  • Bioinformatics
  • TUGraz OPEN Library (Graz University of Technology)

Sorin Istrail has also authored book publications with Springer Science+Business Media. One of the titles is:

  • Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (2021)

The scientist has worked collaboratively with several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Pavel A. Pevzner
  • Martin Vingron
  • Fengzhu Sun
  • David Armanious
  • Jessica Schuster

Best Publications

  • Bisimulation can't be traced

    Bard Bloom;Sorin Istrail;Albert R. Meyer

  • SNPs Problems, Complexity, and Algorithms

    Giuseppe Lancia;Giuseppe Lancia;Vineet Bafna;Sorin Istrail;Ross Lippert

  • Whole-genome shotgun assembly and comparison of human genome assemblies

    Sorin Istrail;Granger G. Sutton;Liliana Florea;Aaron L. Halpern

  • Algorithmic strategies for the single nucleotide polymorphism haplotype assembly problem

    Ross Lippert;Russell Schwartz;Giuseppe Lancia;Sorin Istrail

  • Algorithmic aspects of protein structure similarity

    D. Goldman;S. Istrail;C.H. Papadimitriou

  • Logic functions of the genomic cis-regulatory code.

    Sorin Istrail;Eric H. Davidson

  • Fast protein folding in the hydrophobic-hydrophilic model within three-eighths of optimal

    William E. Hart;Sorin C. Istrail

  • Robust proofs of NP-hardness for protein folding: general lattices and energy potentials.

    William E. Hart;Sorin Istrail

  • 101 optimal PDB structure alignments: a branch-and-cut algorithm for the maximum contact map overlap problem

    Giuseppe Lancia;Robert Carr;Brian Walenz;Sorin Istrail

  • 1001 optimal PDB structure alignments: integer programming methods for finding the maximum contact map overlap.

    Alberto Caprara;Robert D. Carr;Sorin Istrail;Giuseppe Lancia

  • Bisimulation can't be traced. Preliminary report

    B. Bloom;S. Istrail;A.R. Meyer

  • Optimal haplotype block-free selection of tagging SNPs for genome-wide association studies.

    Bjarni V. Halldórsson;Vineet Bafna;Ross Lippert;Russell S. Schwartz

  • Computational Molecular Biology

    Sorin Istrail;Pavel Pevzner;Ron Shamir

  • A Survey of Computational Methods for Determining Haplotypes

    Bjarni V. Halldórsson;Vineet Bafna;Nathan Edwards;Ross Lippert

  • HapCompass: A Fast Cycle Basis Algorithm for Accurate Haplotype Assembly of Sequence Data

    Derek Aguiar;Sorin Istrail

  • Statistical mechanics, three-dimensionality and NP-completeness: I. Universality of intracatability for the partition function of the Ising model across non-planar surfaces (extended abstract)

    Sorin Istrail

  • Haplotypes and informative SNP selection algorithms: don't block out information

    Vineet Bafna;Bjarni V. Halldorsson;Russell Schwartz;Andrew G. Clark

  • Practical Algorithms and Fixed-Parameter Tractability for the Single Individual SNP Haplotyping Problem

    Romeo Rizzi;Vineet Bafna;Sorin Istrail;Giuseppe Lancia

  • Haplotype assembly in polyploid genomes and identical by descent shared tracts

    Derek Aguiar;Sorin Istrail

  • The regulatory genome and the computer

    Sorin Istrail;Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon;Eric H. Davidson

  • Fast protein folding in the hydrophobic-hydrophilic model within three-eights of optimal

    William E. Hart;Sorin Istrail

Frequent Co-Authors

Bjarni V. Halldorsson
Bjarni V. Halldorsson Reykjavík University
andrew g clark
andrew g clark Cornell University
Vineet Bafna
Vineet Bafna University of California, San Diego
Michael S. Waterman
Michael S. Waterman University of Southern California
William E. Hart
William E. Hart Sandia National Laboratories
Pavel A. Pevzner
Pavel A. Pevzner University of California, San Diego
Shibu Yooseph
Shibu Yooseph University of Central Florida
Daniel H. Huson
Daniel H. Huson University of Tübingen
Eric H. Davidson
Eric H. Davidson California Institute of Technology
Satoru Miyano
Satoru Miyano Tokyo Medical and Dental University

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