Recent Lab News 

01.03.2018 Christina is the PC Chair for ACM BCB 2018.  Please contact her if you would like to join the PC. 

01.03.2018 Resistome SNP Calling via Read Colored de Bruijn Graphs accepted to RECOMB SEQ 2018.  Congratulations Bahar!

01.03.2018 Christina is the Poster Chair for RECOMB 2018. Please contact her concerning any matters.

01.03.2018 Enrichment allows identification of diverse, rare elements in metagenomic resistome-virulome sequencing published at Microbiome.

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

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

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 published at Nucleic Acids Research.  

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. 

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.

 

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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.

Recent Publications

Resistome SNP Calling via Read Colored de Bruijn Graphs

Resistome SNP Calling via Read Colored de Bruijn Graphs. Bahar Alipanahi, Martin D. Muggli, Musa Jundi, Noelle Noyes, Christina Boucher. Accepted to RECOMB SEQ 2018.

Enrichment allows identification of diverse, rare elements in metagenomic resistome-virulome sequencing.

Enrichment allows identification of diverse, rare elements in metagenomic resistome-virulome sequencing. Noelle R. Noyes, Maggie E. Weinroth, Jennifer K. Parker, Chris J. Dean, Steven M. Lakin, Robert A. Raymond, Pablo Rovira, Enrique Doster, Zaid Abdo, Jennifer N. Martin, Kenneth L. Jones, Jaime Ruiz, Christina A. Boucher, Keith E. Belk, and Paul S. Morley. Microbiome. 2017; 5: 142.

Counting motifs in dynamic networks

Counting motifs in dynamic networks. Kingshuk Mukherjee, Md Mahmudul Hasan, Christina Boucher and Tamer Kahveci. Accepted to BMC Systems Biology. Special issue of APBC 2018.

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. In the Proceedings of WABI 2017, 1:1-1:14.

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)

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