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Dr. Yunkai Liu
Director of Bioinformatics Program 
Gannon University
School of Engineering and Computer Science
109 University Square
Erie, PA 16541
(814) 871-7691
liu006@gannon.edu

Dr. Liu joined the Computer and Information Science department at Gannon University in 2008 as an assistant professor. He is acting as the director of Gannon's Bioinformatics program. Prior to joining Gannon, he taught computer science courses in the Department of Computer Science at University of South Dakota.

Office:

       Zurn, Room 348

Education:

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, West Virginia University
  • M.S. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • M.S. in Mathematics, University of Science and Technology at China 
  • B.S. in Mathematics, University of Science and Technology at China 

Teaching Interest:

  • BINF100 - Introduction to Bioinformatics
  • BINF200 - Bioinformatics Tools
  • BINF300 - Bioinformatics Software
  • BINF400 - Bioinformatics Research
  • CIS220 - Data Structures and Algorithmic Design
  • CIS286 - Object Oriented Programming
  • CIS330 - Operating Systems
  • GCIS501 - Advanced Programming
  • GCIS551 - Advanced Database Manage System
  • GCIS625 – Advanced Operating System 

Research Interests:

  • Bioinformatics
  • Graph Theory
  • Data Mining

Recent Publication:

  • Martin Telefont and Yunkai Liu. OntoSlug: A Dynamic Visual Front-end Program for Existing Ontologies, Bioinformation 2(10):438-440 (2008).
  • Sujuan Ye and Yunkai Liu. CpGIF: a new algorithm for the identification of CpG islands, Bioinformation 2(8), 335-338 (2008).
  • Yunkai Liu, Sujuan Ye and Asai Asaithambi. Computational Identification of Regulatory Motifs in Human Promoters, 2007 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP’07), June 2007, 208-213.
  • Yunkai Liu and Cun-Quan Zhang. A linear solution for haplotype perfect phylogeny problem - Extended Abstract, Advances in Bioinformatics and its Applications, May 2005, 173-184.
  • Cun-Quan Zhang, Yunkai Liu, Elaine Eschen and Keqiang Wu. Identifying regulatory signals in DNA-sequences with a non-statistical approximation approach, Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Compute Society Bioinformatics Conference, August 2003, 593-597.
 
 
 

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