Patrick Ng

Mailing Address:
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University
4130 Upson Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853

Office: 457 Rhodes Hall
E-mail: ppn3 [at] cs cornell edu
Phone: (917) 400-7372

I am a 3rd-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University under the Tri-I Computational Biology and Medicine program. My advisor is Uri Keich. We are currently working on de novo motif discovery.

Software

GibbsILR - motif-finder that optimizes for the incomplete likelihood ratio (ILR)

Publications

Uri Keich, Patrick Ng. A conservative parametric approach to motif significance analysis. Proc. 18th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW) 2007
Patrick Ng, Niranjan Nagarajan, Neil Jones, Uri Keich. Apples to apples: improving the performance of motif finders and their significance analysis in the Twilight Zone. Proc. 14th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 2006
Niranjan Nagarajan, Patrick Ng, Uri Keich. Refining motif finders with E-value calculations. Proc. RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Regulatory Genomics 2006