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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology
  • 2015 - ACM Fellow For contributions to mathematical theory, algorithms, and software for large-scale molecular phylogenetics and historical linguistics.
  • 2010 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Tandy Warnow is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with notable focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Artificial Intelligence, and Plant Science as subfields of study.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks

Warnow's recent notable papers include:

  • "Complexity of avian evolution revealed by family-level genomes," published in Nature, 2024
  • "Why sequence all eukaryotes?", published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022
  • "Multispecies Coalescent: Theory and Applications in Phylogenetics," published in the Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics, 2021
  • "MAGUS: Multiple sequence Alignment using Graph clUStering," published in Bioinformatics, 2020
  • "DISCO: Species Tree Inference using Multicopy Gene Family Tree Decomposition," published in Systematic Biology, 2021

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Warnow include:

  • Minhyuk Park (23 publications)
  • George Chacko (19 publications)
  • Baqiao Liu (16 publications)
  • Yasamin Tabatabaee (16 publications)
  • Erin K. Molloy (13 publications)

Warnow's work has been published repeatedly across prominent venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 17 publications
  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 13 publications
  • Bioinformatics with 9 publications
  • Journal of Computational Biology with 6 publications
  • Bioinformatics Advances with 5 publications

Throughout their career, Warnow has received several distinctions such as:

  • Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (2017)
  • ACM Fellow (2015) for contributions to mathematical theory, algorithms, and software for large-scale molecular phylogenetics and historical linguistics
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2010)

Best Publications

  • ASTRAL: genome-scale coalescent-based species tree estimation

    S. Mirarab;R. Reaz;Md. S. Bayzid;T. Zimmermann

  • ASTRAL-II: coalescent-based species tree estimation with many hundreds of taxa and thousands of genes.

    Siavash Mirarab;Tandy J. Warnow

  • Indo‐European and Computational Cladistics

    Don Ringe;Tandy Warnow;Ann Taylor

  • Data access for the 1,000 Plants (1KP) project.

    Naim Matasci;Ling Hong Hung;Zhixiang Yan;Eric J. Carpenter

  • Rapid and Accurate Large-Scale Coestimation of Sequence Alignments and Phylogenetic Trees

    Kevin Liu;Sindhu Raghavan;Serita Nelesen;C. Randal Linder

  • PASTA: Ultra-Large Multiple Sequence Alignment for Nucleotide and Amino-Acid Sequences

    Siavash Mirarab;Nam Nguyen;Sheng Guo;Li-San Wang

  • SATé-II: Very Fast and Accurate Simultaneous Estimation of Multiple Sequence Alignments and Phylogenetic Trees

    Kevin Liu;Tandy J. Warnow;Mark T. Holder;Serita M. Nelesen

  • A perspective on 16S rRNA operational taxonomic unit clustering using sequence similarity

    Nam Phuong Nguyen;Tandy Warnow;Mihai Pop;Bryan White

  • Evaluating Summary Methods for Multilocus Species Tree Estimation in the Presence of Incomplete Lineage Sorting.

    Siavash Mirarab;Shamsuzzoha Bayzid;Tandy Warnow;Tandy Warnow

  • A few logs suffice to build (almost) all trees (l): part I

    Michael A. Steel;Lázló A. Székely;Tandy J. Warnow;Péter L. Erdös

  • Two Strikes Against Perfect Phylogeny

    Hans L. Bodlaender;Michael R. Fellows;Tandy Warnow

  • A few logs suffice to build (almost) all trees : Part II

    P. L. Erdös;M. A. Steel;L. A. Szekely;T. J. Warnow

  • Statistical binning enables an accurate coalescent-based estimation of the avian tree

    Siavash Mirarab;Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid;Bastien Boussau;Tandy Warnow;Tandy Warnow

  • RAxML and FastTree: Comparing Two Methods for Large-Scale Maximum Likelihood Phylogeny Estimation

    Kevin Liu;C. Randal Linder;Tandy Warnow

  • A robust model for finding optimal evolutionary trees

    Martin Farach;Sampath Kannan;Tandy J. Warnow

  • SEPP: SATé-enabled phylogenetic placement.

    Siavash Mirarab;Nam Nguyen;Tandy J. Warnow

  • Reconstructing reticulate evolution in species-theory and practice.

    Luay Nakhleh;Tandy J. Warnow;C. Randal Linder;Katherine St. John

  • Reconstructing reticulate evolution in species: theory and practice

    Luay Nakhleh;Tandy Warnow;C. Randal Linder

  • Phylogenetic Networks: Modeling, Reconstructibility, and Accuracy

    B.M.E. Moret;L. Nakhleh;T. Warnow;C.R. Linder

  • To Include or Not to Include: The Impact of Gene Filtering on Species Tree Estimation Methods.

    Erin K Molloy;Tandy Warnow

  • Disk-covering, a fast-converging method for phylogenetic tree reconstruction.

    Daniel H. Huson;Scott M. Nettles;Tandy J. Warnow

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard M. E. Moret
Bernard M. E. Moret École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Li-San Wang
Li-San Wang University of Pennsylvania
Sampath Kannan
Sampath Kannan University of Pennsylvania
Luay Nakhleh
Luay Nakhleh Rice University
Shibu Yooseph
Shibu Yooseph University of Central Florida
Mike Steel
Mike Steel University of Canterbury
Cynthia A. Phillips
Cynthia A. Phillips Sandia National Laboratories
Daniel H. Huson
Daniel H. Huson University of Tübingen
Alexandros Stamatakis
Alexandros Stamatakis Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Satish Rao
Satish Rao University of California, Berkeley

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