Christina Boucher

Recent Lab News

31.07.2017 Disentangled Long-Read De Bruijn Graphs via Optical Maps accepted to WABI 2017.

31.07.2017 Succinct Colored de Bruijn Graphs. Published at the Journal of Bioinformatics.

31.07.2017 Targeted enrichment for pathogen detection and characterization in three felid species. Published at the Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

01.01.2017 MEGARes: an antimicrobial resistance database for high throughput sequencing was accepted at Nucleic Acids Research.

12.16.2016 Disentangling Long-Read De Bruijn Graphs Via Optical Mapping posted to bioRxiv.

11.10.2016 Chloe Anne Boucher Ruiz was born at 6lbs, 5 ounces.

01.08.2016 Christina Boucher is a keynote spearker for the Computational Pan-genomics ECCB 2016 workshop.

06.08.2016 "Colored de Bruijn Graphs" accepted for Late Breaking Research Presentation at ISMB 2016.

01.08.2016 Christina Boucher is a keynote spearker for RECOMB-seq 2016.

01.01.2016 "Exploring Non-touchscreen Gestures for Smartwatches" accepted to the proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016). [Acceptance rate: 23%]

07.20.2015: "Fast and Efficient Compression of High-Throughput Sequencing Reads" accepted to ACM-BCB 2015. Congratulations to Trey Kind for his undergraduate reasearch work.

07.20.2015: "Consensus Patterns (Probably) Has no EPTAS" was selected to receive best paper at ESA 2015.

06.20.2015: "Relative Select" accpted to SPIRE 2015. Preprint here.

06.17.2015 "Consensus Patterns (Probably) Has no EPTAS" accepted to ESA 2015 [26% acceptance rate].

03.01.2015 "The SLOW GROWTH 3 pentatricopeptide repeat protein is required for the splicing of mitochondrial nad7 intron 2 in Arabidopsis" accepted to Plant Physiology.

02.14.2015 "Misassembly Detection using Paired-End Sequence Reads and Optical Mapping data" by Martin Muggli, Simon Puglisi, Roy Ronen, and Christina Boucher accepted to ISMB 2015 in first round of acceptance (9% acceptance on first round). Described on Homolog.us here.

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida.

My research lab develops novel analysis methods that use current and upcoming technologie for generating biological data and build resources–such as a misassembly correction method or a resistome surveillance method–that benefit both researchers in bioinformatics and life sciences. Each of our analysis methods incorporate the use of discrete algorithms or data structures.

The Boucher lab greatly appreciates the support from the following granting agencies: NSF III, USDA, NIH (CCTSI), Morris Animal Foundation, and Windows Azure for Research.

Disentangled Long-Read De Bruijn Graphs via Optical Maps.

Disentangled Long-Read De Bruijn Graphs via Optical Maps. Bahar Alipanahi, Leena Salmela, Simon Puglisi, Martin Muggli, Christina Boucher. Accepted to WABI 2017.

Succinct Colored de Bruijn Graphs.

Martin D. Muggli, Alex Bowe, Noelle R. Noyes, Paul Morley, Keith Belk, Rob Raymond, Travis Gagie, Simon Puglisi, and Christina Boucher. In press at Journal of Bioinformatics (Impact Factor = 5.766)

Targeted enrichment for pathogen detection and characterization in three felid species. argeted enrichment for pathogen detection and characterization in three felid species.

Targeted Enrichment for Pathogen Detection and Characterization in Three Felid Species. Lee J, Mackie R, Harrison T, Shariat B, Kind T, Kehl T, Löchelt M, Boucher C, VandeWoude S. J Clin Microbiol. 2017 Jun;55(6):1658-1670. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01463-16. Epub 2017 Mar 22.

aPPRove: An HMM-Based Method for Accurate Prediction of RNA-Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein Binding Events.ation Title

aPPRove: An HMM-Based Method for Accurate Prediction of RNA-Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein Binding Events. Thomas Harrison, Jaime Ruiz, Daniel Sloan, Asa Ben-Hur, and Christina Boucher. PLoS One. 2016 Aug 25;11(8):e0160645. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160645. eCollection 2016.

MEGARes: an antimicrobial resistance database for high throughput sequencing

MEGARes: an antimicrobial resistance database for high throughput sequencing. Nucleic Acids Research. 2017 Jan 4;45(D1):D574-D580 doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw1009. Epub 2016. Lakin, Steven*; Dean, Chris*; Noyes, Noelle*; Dettenwanger, Adam; Ross, Annie; Doster, Enrique; Rovira, Pablo; Abdo, Zaid; Jones, Kenneth; Ruiz, Jaime; Belk, Keith; Morley, Paul; Boucher, Christina. *: these authors contributed equally to this work