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Minmei Hou

Assistant Chair
Associate Professor

Office: PM 560
Email: mhou@niu.edu
Website: http://faculty.cs.niu.edu/~hou/

Education

  • Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
  • M.S. Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
  • B.S. Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Areas of Interest

  • Bioinformatics
  • Text mining

Representative publications

  • "Alignathon: a Competitive Assessment of Whole-Genome Alignment Methods," D. Earl et al. Genome Research, 2014, vol. 24, pp. 2077-2089
  • "Alignment seeding strategies using contiguous pyrimidine purine matches," M. Hou, L. Zhang, and R.S. Harris, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine, October 2012, pp. 384-391
  • "Pico-inplace-inversions between Human and Chimpanzee," M. Hou, P. Yao, A. Antonou, and M. Johns, Bioinformatics, 2011, 27(23), pp. 3266-3275
  • "HomologMiner: Looking for Homologous Genomic Groups in Whole Genomes," M. Hou, P. Berman, C. Hsu, and R.S. Harris, Bioinformatics, 2007, 23(8), pp. 917-925
  • "Identification and Analysis of Functional Elements in 1% of the Human Genome by the ENCODE Pilot Project," E. Birney et al. Nature, 2007, 447(7146), pp. 799-816
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