LILA KARI Professor Cheriton Faculty Fellow School of Computer Science University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 Canada email: "firstname" at "uwaterloo.ca"

Research News

• Identifying the next deadly virus (pdf)
• Cheriton researchers and their colleagues at Western University use machine learning to identify and classify deadly astroviruses (pdf)
• Extreme environments are coded into the genomes of the organisms that live there (pdf)
• Extreme conditions leave universal mark on extremophiles: Singing from the same songsheet (pdf)
• Extremophiles reveal a new dimension of the genome (pdf)
• New dimension of the genome discovered - distantly related organisms that live in extreme temperatures and pH conditions develop similar DNA (pdf)
• Microbial organisms living in extreme environments have similar genomic signatures even though they are unrelated (pdf)
• Extreme environments leave genomic imprint in tiny organisms (pdf)

BIOSCAN

• BIOSCAN: A global biosurveillance system may hold the answer to protecting life on the planet (pdf)
• Finding the branches on the tree of life (docx) (pdf) (featured on ACM Tech News , (pdf)
• Multidisciplinary Global Biodiversity Project
• New Frontiers in Research Fund

Research Topics

• Biodiversity informatics, data science, machine learning
• Comparative genomics and metagenomics
• Bioinformation and biocomputation - theoretical aspects

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