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Cheong Xin Chan
Cheong Xin Chan

Department of Biological Sciences
University of Iowa

456 Biology Building,
Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone: 319-335-1214
Fax: 319-335-1069
E-mail: cx–chan@uiowa.edu
Web site: http://cx.atspace.com

Education:

  • 2001: B.Sc. (Industrial Biology) Hons I, University of Technology Malaysia
  • 2003: M.Phil. (Algal Biotechnology) with Distinction, University of Malaya
  • 2008: Ph.D. (Genomics and Computational Biology), The University of Queensland

    • Research Interests:

  • Computational and comparative genomics
  • Molecular evolution and phylogenetics of protists and prokaryotes
  • Genetic transfer in protists and prokaryotes
  • Functional genomics of seaweeds

    • Memberships:

  • Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • International Society for Computational Biology
  • Asia-Pacific Society for Applied Phycology
  • Golden Key National Honour Society
  • Malaysian Society of Marine Sciences

    • Publications:

    Chan CX, Beiko RG and Ragan MA (2008). Large-scale detection of recombination in nucleotide sequences. Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematical Biology. AIP Conf. Proc. 971(1): 101-104.
    PDF Chan CX, Beiko RG and Ragan MA (2007). A two-phase strategy for detecting recombination in nucleotide sequences. South African Computer J. 38: 20-27. [Invited]
    PDF Chan CX, Beiko RG and Ragan MA (2007). A two-phase approach for detecting recombination in nucleotide sequences. Proceedings of the 1st Southern African Bioinformatics Workshop, 28-30 January, Johannesburg. pp. 9-16.
    PDF Chan CX, Beiko RG and Ragan MA (2006). Detecting recombination in evolving nucleotide sequences. BMC Bioinformatics 7: 412. [Highly Accessed]
    PDF Chan CX, Ho CL and Phang SM (2006). Trends in seaweed research. Trends Plant Sci. 11(4): 165-166.
    PDF Beiko RG, Chan CX and Ragan MA (2005). A word-oriented approach to alignment validation. Bioinformatics 21(10): 2230-2239.
    PDF Phang SM, Wong CL, Lim PE, Yeong HY and Chan CX (2005). Seaweed diversity of the Langkawi Islands with emphasis on the northeastern region. Malaysian Journal of Science 24(Langkawi Special Issue): 77-94. [2MB]
    PDF Chan CX (2004). Comparing different approaches in large-scale seaweed gene discovery. Bioinformatics Trends 2(3): 106-111.
    PDF Chan CX, Teo SS, Ho CL, Othman RY and Phang SM (2004). Optimisation of RNA extraction from Gracilaria changii (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta). J. Appl. Phycol. 16(4): 297-301.

    Last updated: May 12, 2008
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