Uwe Ohler's Research Group
Bill Majoros
Email: bmajoros (at) duke.edu
Location: 2249 CIEMAS
Hometown: Rivendell
Research Interests
Genome analysis, evolution, learning in machines and animals
Education
Penn State University
B.Sc. in Computer Science, with High Distinction, 1994 (gpa=3.95/4.0, 4.0/4.0 in major)
Phi Kappa Phi honor society
Chris Mader Memorial Scholarship
Publications
Books
WH Majoros (2007) Methods for Computational Gene Prediction. Cambridge University Press
Research articles, tutorials, contributed chapters
WH Majoros, U Ohler (2008) Complexity Reduction in Context-dependent DNA Substitution Models. Bioinformatics (in press).
WH Majoros, I Korf, U Ohler (2008) Gene Prediction Methods. In: Bioinformatics: Tools and Applications (D Edwards, J Stajich, D Hansen eds.). Springer-Verlag. (in press)
E Gottwein, N Mukherjee, C Sachse, C Frenzel, WH Majoros, JT Chi, R Braich, M Manoharan, J Soutschek, U Ohler, BR Cullen (2007) A viral microRNA functions as an orthologue of cellular miR-155. Nature 450:1096-9.
WH Majoros, U Ohler (2007) Spatial preferences of microRNA targets in 3' untranslated regions. BMC Genomics 8:152
WH Majoros, U Ohler (2007) Advancing the State of the Art in Computational Gene Prediction. Proceedings of KDECB / Benelearn '06. Springer-Verlag.
J Allen, WH Majoros, M Pertea, S Salzberg (2006) JIGSAW, GeneZilla, and GlimmerHMM: puzzling out the features of human genes in the ENCODE regions. Genome Biology.
J Eisen et al (2006) Macronuclear genome sequence of the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila, a model eukaryote. PLoS Biology. 4(9).
W Neirman et al (2005) Genomic sequence of the pathogenic and allergenic filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus. Nature 438:1151-1156.
WH Majoros, M Pertea, SL Salzberg (2005) Efficient implementation of a generalized pair hidden Markov model for comparative gene finding. Bioinformatics 21, 1782-1788.
W Majoros, M Pertea, A Delcher, SL Salzberg (2005) Efficient decoding algorithms for generalized hidden Markov model gene finders. BMC Bioinformatics 6:16.
IJ Anderson et al (2005) Gene discovery in the Acanthamoeba castellanii genome. Protist.
W Majoros (2005) Dynamic programming for gene finders. In: Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics. Wiley.
W Majoros (2005) Automatic concept identification in biomedical literature. In: Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics. Wiley.
W Majoros, SL Salzberg (2004) An empirical analysis of training protocols for probabilistic gene finders. BMC Bioinformatics 5:206.
W Majoros, M Pertea, S Salzberg (2004) TIGRscan and GlimmerHMM : two open source ab initio eukaryotic gene finders. Bioinformatics 20, 2878-2879.
The ENCODE Project Consortium (2004) The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) Project. Science 306, 636-640.
W Majoros, M Pertea, C Antonescu, S Salzberg (2003) GlimmerM, Exonomy, and Unveil: Three ab initio Eukaryotic Genefinders. Nucleic Acids Research 31, 3601-3604.
H Mi, J Vandergriff, M Campbell, A Marechania, WH Majoros, S Lewis, PD Thomas, M Ashburner (2003) Assessment of genome-wide protein function classification for Drosophila melanogaster. Genome Research 13, 2118-2128.
WH Majoros, M Subramanian, M Yandell (2002) Identification of Key Concepts in Biomedical Literature using a Modified Markov Heuristic. Bioinformatics 19, 402-407.
M Yandell, WH Majoros (2002) Genomics and Natural Language Processing. Nature Reviews: Genetics 3, 601.
R Holt et al (2002) The Genome Sequence of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Science 298, 129-149.
R Mural et al (2002) A Comparison of Whole-Genome Shotgun-Derived Mouse Chromosome 16 and the Human Genome. Science 296, 1661-1671.
WH Majoros (2002) Syntactic Structure in Birdsong: Memetic Evolution of Songs or Grammars? Journal of Memetics, vol 6.
JC Venter et al (2001) The sequence of the human genome. Science 291, 1304-1351.
Outside Interests/Hobbies