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News & Announcements | |
| • | The paper "PicXAA-R: efficient structural alignment of multiple RNA sequences using a greedy approach" (by S. M.E. Sahraeian and B.-J. Yoon) won the Best Paper Award at the 9th Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC2011), held in Incheon, Korea, Jan 11-14, 2011. |
| • | PicXAA-Web, a web-based multiple sequence alignment tool developed based on PicXAA and PicXAA-R is now available. Visit [PicXAA-Web] to access the PicXAA web-server. |
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Special Issue on Sequence and Genome Analysis - EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology The aim of this special issue is to present the recent advances and existing state-of-the-art techniques, algorithms and applications in the broad area of sequence and genome analysis. [Call for Paper] * Lead Guest Editor: Erchin Serpedin (Texas A&M) * Guest Editors: Xiaodong Wang (Columbia Univ), Xiaodong Cai (Univ of Miami), Byung-Jun Yoon (Texas A&M) * Submission deadline: |
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Special Issue on Genomic Signal Processing (GSP) - Journal of Biological Systems (JBS) The aim of this special issue is to present the latest research advances in the broad area of GSP. Detailed information about the special issue can be found in the following CFP: [Call for Paper] * Lead Guest Editor: Edward R. Dougherty (Texas A&M) * Guest Editors: Byung-Jun Yoon (Texas A&M), Xiaoning Qian (Univ. South Florida), Ranadip Pal (Texas Tech) * Submission deadline: July 1, 2012 * Journal Website: http://www.worldscinet.com/jbs/ |
Short Bio | |
| Current Position |
Assistant Professor Genomic Signal Processing Lab Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. |
| Education |
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering, 2007. M.S., California Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering, 2002. B.S.E. (summa cum laude), Seoul National University, Electrical Engineering, 1998. |
| Work Experience |
Post-Doc, California Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering, Dec.2006-Oct.2007 Microsoft Research, Intern, Summer 2004, 2005, 2006. SecureSoft Inc./Junghwa Systems Inc., Software Developer, 1998-2001. |
| Awards & Honors |
NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2011. Best Paper Award, Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC2011), Jan. 2011 SLATE Teaching Excellence Award, Texas A&M University, 2009. Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship, Microsoft Research, 2004. Paper Award (2nd place), Student Paper Contest, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2003. Killgore Fellowship, California Institute of Technology, 2001. Doctoral Scholarship, The Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS), 2001. |
Research Interests | |
| • | Genomic Signal Processing (GSP), Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology |
| • | Probabilistic Graphical Models & Algorithms, and Their Application in Computational Biology |
| • | Noncoding RNA (ncRNA) Prediction, RNA Sequence Analysis |
| • | Network Biology & Comparative Analysis of Biological Networks |
Selected Publications | |
| 1 |
RESQUE: Network reduction using semi-Markov random walk scores for efficient querying of biological networks
Sayed Mohammad Ebrahim Sahraeian and Byung-Jun Yoon, 16th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), Barcelona, April 2012. [NEW] [preprint:extended abstract] |
| 2 |
Comparative analysis of biological networks: hidden Markov model and Markov chain-based approach
[NEW]
Byung-Jun Yoon, Xiaoning Qian, and Sayed Mohammad Ebrahim Sahraeian, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on Genomic and Proteomic Signal Processing in Biomolecular Pathways, 29(1):22-34, 2012. [preprint] [IEEExplore] |
| 3 |
Identification of diagnostic subnetwork markers for cancer in human protein-protein interaction network
Junjie Su, Byung-Jun Yoon, and Edward R. Dougherty, BMC Bioinformatics, 11(Suppl 6):S8, 2010. [BMC Bioinformatics] |
| 4 |
PicXAA: greedy probabilistic construction of maximum expected accuracy alignment
of multiple sequences
Sayed Mohammad Ebrahim Sahraeian and Byung-Jun Yoon, Nucleic Acids Research, 38(15): 4917-4928, 2010. [Nucleic Acids Research] |
| 5 |
Accurate and reliable cancer classification based on probabilistic inference of pathway activity
Junjie Su, Byung-Jun Yoon, and Edward R. Dougherty, PLoS One, 4(12): e8161. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008161, 2009. [preprint] [PLoS One] |
| 6 |
Effective identification of conserved pathways in biological networks using hidden Markov models
Xiaoning Qian and Byung-Jun Yoon, PLoS One, 4(12): e8070. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008070, 2009. [preprint] [PLoS One] |
| 7 |
Hidden Markov models and their applications in biological sequence analysis
Byung-Jun Yoon, Current Genomics, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 402-415, Sep. 2009. [preprint] [PubMed Central] |
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Computational identification and analysis of noncoding RNAs - Unearthing the buried treasures in the genome
Byung-Jun Yoon and P. P. Vaidyanathan, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on Signal Processing Methods in Genomics and Proteomics, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 64-74, Jan. 2007. [preprint] [IEEExplore] |
| ** | To see the complete list of publications, visit the [publication] section. |
Contact | |
| Mailing Address |
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering Texas A&M University, MS 3128 College Station, TX 77843, USA |
| byung jun yoon@ece.tamu.edu (only bold characters) | |
| Office Location | Zachry Engineering Center 237F |
Last update: Feb.20.2012