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1992-2001     Professional Experience in the Commercial Software Development Industry

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My current research area is Bioinformatics: The application of computational tools and techniques to the study of molecular biology. My research interests are in the following areas: 

• Bioinformatics
• Algorithms
• Phylogenetics
• Genomics
• Sequence Analysis

Bioinformatics is a highly interdisciplinary field and many of my projects require collaboration with biology\biomedical researchers. Current and upcoming projects involve the study of viral evolution within a host, genome annotation, identification of splicing regulatory sequences and tests for base compositional bias.

• Buendia, P., Collins, T., and Narasimhan, G. (2008). The Role of Internal Node Sequences and the Molecular Clock in the Analysis of Serially-Sampled Data. International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA) 4:107-121.
• Buendia, P. and Narasimhan, G. (2007). Sliding MinPD: Building evolutionary networks of serial samples via a recombination detection approach. To appear in Bioinformatics 
• Buendia, P. and Narasimhan, G. (2007). Searching for Recombinant Donors in a Phylogenetic Network of Serial Samples. To appear in International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA), Atlanta, Georgia 
• Buendia, P. (2007). Reconstructing Mutational Pathways from Serial Evolutionary Trees. To appear in the IEEE 7th International Symposium on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (IEEE BIBE 2007), Harvard, Boston.
• Buendia, P. and Narasimhan, G. (2006). Serial NetEvolve: A flexible utility for generating serially-sampled sequences along a tree or recombinant network. Bioinformatics 22 (18), pp. 2313-2314. 
• Buendia, P., Collins, T., and Narasimhan, G. (2006). Reconstructing Ancestor-Descendant Lineages from Serially-Sampled Data: A Comparison Study. International Conference on Computational Science (IWBRA), Reading, UK. 807-814
• Buendia, P. and G. Narasimhan. (2004) MinPD: Distance-based Phylogenetic Analysis and Recombination Detection of Serially-Sampled HIV Quasispecies. in Proc. IEEE Comput. Sys. Bioinform. Conf. 2004. Stanford, CA.
  

A few web sites that offer free online statistics tutorials: 
http://stattrek.com  
http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/

Bioinformatics Research Group at FIU: 
http://biorg.cs.fiu.edu/ 

Web sites covering topics in Genetics and Molecular Biology: 
http://www.weihenstephan.de/~schlind/genglos.html 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code 
http://molbio.info.nih.gov/molbio  

Here is a great web site for computer programmers or those with a little programming know-how that describes how DNA compares to a computer program:
http://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/

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