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Max Alekseyev
Assistant Professor

E-mail: maxal@cse.sc.edu
Phone:  (803) 777-5310
FAX:    (803) 777-3767
Office: Swearingen 3A48

Mailing address:
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
University of South Carolina
301 Main St., Columbia, SC 29208

Research Interests: Computational Molecular Biology / Bioinformatics, Comparative Genomics, Graph Theory, Combinatorics, Discrete Algorithms, Cryptography.

Brief Biography:

  • Ph.D. in computer Ssience, University of California, San Diego, 2007
  • M.S. (summa cum laude) in mathematics, Nizhni Novgorod State University, Russia, 1999
  • B.S. (summa cum laude) in mathematics, Nizhni Novgorod State University, Russia, 1997

Recent publications (see Publications page for the complete list):

Son K. Pham, Dmitry Antipov, Alexander Sirotkin, Glenn Tesler, Pavel A. Pevzner, and Max A. Alekseyev "Pathset Graphs: A Novel Approach for Comprehensive Utilization of Paired Reads in Genome Assembly". Journal of Computational Biology 20(4) 2013, 359-371. doi:10.1089/cmb.2012.0098

Sergey Nurk, Anton Bankevich, Dmitry Antipov, Alexey Gurevich, Anton Korobeynikov, Alla Lapidus, Andrey Prjibelsky, Alexey Pyshkin, Alexander Sirotkin, Yakov Sirotkin, Ramunas Stepanauskas, Jeffrey McLean, Roger Lasken, Scott R. Clingenpeel, Tanja Woyke, Glenn Tesler, Max A. Alekseyev, and Pavel A. Pevzner "Assembling Genomes and Mini-metagenomes from Highly Chimeric Reads". Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2013), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7821 (2013), pp. 158–170. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-37195-0_13

Sergey I. Nikolenko, Anton Korobeynikov, and Max A. Alekseyev "BayesHammer: Bayesian clustering for error correction in single-cell sequencing". Proceedings of the 11th Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC 2013), BMC Genomics 14(Suppl 1) (2013), pp. S7. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-14-S1-S7

Dmitry G. Fon-Der-Flaass and Max A. Alekseyev "Problem 11666". American Mathematical Monthly, 119(8) (2012), pp. 699-700. doi:10.4169/amer.math.monthly.119.08.699

Haiwei Luo, William Arndt, Yiwei Zhang, Guanqun Shi, Max A. Alekseyev, Jijun Tang, Austin L. Hughes, and Robert Friedman "Phylogenetic Analysis of Genome Rearrangements among Five Mammalian Orders". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65(3) (2012), pp. 871–882. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.08.008

Sergey Aganezov and Max A. Alekseyev "On pairwise distances and median score of three genomes under DCJ". Proceedings of the 10th Annual RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Comparative Genomics (RECOMB-CG 2012), BMC Bioinformatics 13(Suppl 19) (2012), pp. S1. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-13-S19-S1

Anton Bankevich, Sergey Nurk, Dmitry Antipov, Alexey Gurevich, Mikhail Dvorkin, Alexander Kulikov, Valery Lesin, Sergey Nikolenko, Son Pham, Andrey Prjibelski, Alexey Pyshkin, Alexander Sirotkin, Nikolay Vyahhi, Glenn Tesler, Max Alekseyev, and Pavel Pevzner "SPAdes: a New Genome Assembly Algorithm and its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing". Journal of Computational Biology 19(5) (2012), 455-477. doi:10.1089/cmb.2012.0021

Son K. Pham, Dmitry Antipov, Alexander Sirotkin, Glenn Tesler, Pavel A. Pevzner, and Max A. Alekseyev "Pathset Graphs: A Novel Approach for Comprehensive Utilization of Paired Reads in Genome Assembly". Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2012), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7262 (2012), pp. 200-212. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-29627-7_21

Max A. Alekseyev and Frank Ruskey "Problem 11544". American Mathematical Monthly, 118(1) (2011), p. 84. doi:10.4169/amer.math.monthly.118.01.084

Shuai Jiang and Max A. Alekseyev "Weighted genomic distance can hardly impose a bound on the proportion of transpositions". Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6577 (2011), pp. 124-133. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-20036-6_13

Max A. Alekseyev "On the intersections of Fibonacci, Pell, and Lucas numbers". INTEGERS 11(3) (2011), pp. 239-259. doi:10.1515/INTEG.2011.021

Max A. Alekseyev and Pavel A. Pevzner "Limited Lifespan of Fragile Regions in Mammalian Evolution". Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6398 (2011), pp. 198-215. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16181-0_17