Thanks to an NSERC USRA, this past summer I worked for Anne Condon in the Bioinformatics, and Empirical & Theoretical Algorithms Lab. I worked on RNA Folding pathways, and more specifically, repeated and temporary edges in these pathways.

Interests

Working in the BETA lab this past summer has really sparked my interest in bioinformatics. Mostly, I am interested in RNA folding pathways and RNA structure prediction. Sometime in the future, I'd like to work on biomolecular computing or computer science problems with a rather sizable side of statistics.

Publications

C. Thachuk, J. Manuch, A. Rafiey, L. Mathieson, L. Stacho, and A. Condon. An algorithm for the energy barrier problem without pseudoknots and temporary arcs, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, to appear.

Courses I'm taking

Links

• The BETA (Bioinformatics, and Empirical and Theoretical Algorithms) Lab
• A tutorial I wrote for anthropologists who are are looking to join the party and make their diagrams with MetaPost
• The Bioinformatics Reading Group
• Proof that I once dressed up as a logic gate, probably suggesting that I am too nerdy for my own good.
• The Haskell wiki. If you haven't had some fun with functional languages, you are missing out. They're not called FUNctional languages for nothing, that's for sure.