| Welcome to the Nielsen group web page! We work on statistical and
computational methods in genomics, phylogenetics and population
genetics. Most projects in the group involve development of new theory or
statistical methodology for data analysis, but some projects are focused
more on data analysis.
Examples of recent projects include:
(1) The development of methods for estimation of demographic parameters
and detection of selection from large Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP)
data sets and other large genomic data sets.
(2) The analysis of more than 20,000 orthologous genes from humans and
chimpanzees for the purpose of identifying genes of evolutionary
significant genes (positive selection).
(3) The development of a Bayesian method for estimating the history of
inversions and translocations between chromosomes.
On this page you can find information on members of the research group,
computer programs we distribute, and on collaborators of the group. Rasmus
Nielsen is one leave from Cornell University during 2004-2005. He is currently at the (Center for
Bioinformatics) at University of Copenhagen. More information regarding
statistical and population genomics at Cornell University can be found at
the Bustamante web site (link).
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