Stephen Altschul, PhD

Computational Biology Branch
NCBI, NLM, NIH

Research Interests

• Sequence alignment algorithms
• Statistics of sequence comparison
• Measures of sequence similarity

Select Recent Publications

• Altschul, S.F., Wootton, J.C., Zaslavsky, E. & Yu, Y.-K. (2010) "The construction and use of log-odds substitution scores for multiple sequence alignment," PLoS Comput. Biol. 6:e1000852.

• Ye, X., Yu, Y.-K. & Altschul, S.F. (2010) "Compositional adjustment of Dirichlet mixture priors," J. Comput. Biol. 17:1607-1620.

• Yu, Y.-K. & Altschul, S.F. (2011) "The complexity of the Dirichlet model for multiple alignment data," J. Comput. Biol. 18:925-939.

• Ye, X., Yu, Y.-K. & Altschul, S.F. (2011) "On the inference of Dirichlet mixture priors for protein sequence comparison," J. Comput. Biol. 18:941-954.

Publications in PubMed

Group Members

• Xugang Ye