29 Jan 2024
Welcome Van Nguyen-Hoang! Van just joined our group as a PhD student. She will work on building a new phylogenetic model for cancer types caused by single nucleotide variations particularly in non-coding RNAs.
22 Jan 2024
Welcome Hashara Kumarasinghe! Hashara just joined our group as a PhD student. She will work on machine learning and cloud computing for phylogenomics.
01 Dec 2023
Minh Bui was recognised as a highly cited researcher 2023, among 7,125 scientists worldwide. In short, he is among the top 0.1% of researchers in the world, who have published many highly cited papers (in the top 1% papers) during the last 10 years.
Source: VC’s Update - 2023 Alumni Awards and Highly Cited Researchers by the Australian National University.
08 Nov 2023
Congratulations to Minh, who has been named the Field Leader in Evolutionary Biology in 2023 by The Australian.
The ANU leads in 12 fields of research: Anthropology; Asian Studies & History; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Birds; Chinese Studies & History; Condensed Matter Physics & Semiconductors; Evolutionary Biology; Geophysics; International Law; Optics & Photonics; Plasma & Fusion; Political Science.
19 Jul 2023
Dr. Minh Bui and Prof. Robert Lanfear of the Australian National University (ANU) have been awarded the 2023 Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research Software for their work on IQ-TREE 2.
Source: Eureka Prize winner reflects on software that armed humanity against COVID-19 by the College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics, ANU.
01 Jul 2023
Welcome Thomas Wong! Thomas just joined our group as a research fellow. He will develop a new multi-tree model for the IQ-TREE software, which improves the software’s ability to identify and analyse complex evolutionary relationships.
31 Mar 2023
Welcome Huaiyan Ren! Huaiyan just joined our group as a PhD student. His research will consist of: (1) estimating (maximum likelihood) substitution matrix mixture model for DNA alignment and apply it to real species data; and (2) applying machine learning approaches (CNN) to mixture model selection.
30 Nov 2022
Welcome Piyumal Demotte! Piyumal just joined our group as a PhD student. He will work on optimized methods for phylogenetic dating, especially focusing on MCMC and machine learning approaches considering the complexities of biological datasets.
15 Nov 2022
Minh Bui was recognised as a highly cited researcher 2022, among 6,938 scientists worldwide. In short, he is among the top 0.1% of researchers in the world, who have published many highly cited papers (in the top 1% papers) during the last 10 years.
Ref: Minh’s researcher profile
09 Nov 2022
Congratulations to Minh, who has been named the Field Leader in Evolutionary Biology in 2022 by The Australian.
01 Nov 2022
We have recently received a prestigious grant funded by the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative for essential open source software for Science (Cycle 5), together with Prof. Gavin Huttley (PI).
The project is entitled cogent3 Python APIs for IQ-TREE and GraphBin via a Plug-In Architecture PROJECT: To enhance metagenomic analysis by integrating cogent3, GraphBin and IQ-TREE to support innovative genomic technologies for monitoring the impact of viral and bacterial diversity on human health.
Full list of all funded projects here.
26 Nov 2021
Minh Bui was recognised as a highly cited researcher 2021, among nearly 6,700 scientists worldwide. In short, he is among the top 0.1% of researchers in the world, who have published many highly cited papers (in the top 1% papers) during the last 10 years.
Source: CECS academic cited 15,000 times, makes world’s ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ list by the College of Engineering and Computer Science, ANU.
03 Sep 2021
Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative generously provided a funding of US$ 339,000 for the IQ-TREE software project: “Real-time genomic epidemiology with IQ-TREE”.
This project aims to significantly speed up IQ-TREE to enable real-time genomic epidemiology during ongoing outbreaks such as COVID-19, and to introduce continuous integration and a testing framework to ease software maintenance for all developers.
We are looking for two people for this project!
The highlight news by the College of Engineering and Computer Science.
Details for IQ-TREE project from CZI website.
Full list of all funded projects here.
02 Mar 2021
Minh recently gave a seminar for the Vietnamese Bioinformatics Network about his work with IQ-TREE and challenges in COVID-19 data analysis. His recorded talk is now available on YouTube (in Vietnamese):
04 Jan 2021
Welcome Nhan Trong Ly! Nhan just joined our group as a PhD student. He will work on developing new effective methods for phylogenetic inference to deal with challenges from big biological data sets.
01 Sep 2020
We have recently received a prestigious grant funded by the The Simons and Moore Foundation leaded by PIs Andrew Roger, Edward Susko, Laura Eme and Minh Bui.
The project is about new phylogenomic models and methods to resolve the prokaryote to eukaryote transition.
01 Jun 2020
Welcome James Barbetti! James just joined our group a software developer. He will work on improving IQ-TREE for ultra-large genomic datasets, with a particular focus on COVID-19 data.
04 Dec 2019
We have recently received an Australian Research Council discovery grant 2020, together with Prof. Allen Rodrigo (CI) and A/Prof. Rob Lanfear (co-CI), H/Prof. Lars Jermiin, and Prof. Matt Hahn. The value is $422,697 for a three-year Postdoc.
The topic is about Efficient phylogenetic methods that manage the curse of genomic complexity. This project aims to develop new methods and software to infer the evolutionary history of organisms using genomic data. These new phylogenomic methods need to take account of the complexity of evolutionary processes and/or patterns in time (along the evolutionary tree) and space (along the genome). This project is significant because these methods must merge mathematics and statistics with High-Performance Computing to handle the huge quantities of genetic data and the complexity of evolution itself. An important expected outcome of this project will be the development and release of freely-available software that incorporates these new methods. This project expects to benefit scientists who need to infer phylogenies from genomic data.
Full list of all funded projects here….
15 Nov 2019
We have recently received a prestigious grant funded by the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative for essential open source software for Life Science. The project is entitled IQ-TREE for Ultra-Large Genomic Data: To develop an open standard and API for phylogenetic models and improve the speed and scalability of the IQ-TREE software for phylogenetic inference from ultra-large genomic data.
We are looking for a Software Engineer for this project!
The highlight news by the Research School of Computer Science.
Full list of all funded projects here.
29 Sep 2019
Congratulations to Minh, who has recently been named the Field Leader in Evolutionary Biology in 2019 by The Australian.
The ANU has also been named the Lead Institution in two fields: Evolutionary Biology and Birds.
Van Nguyen-Hoang joins our group as a PhD student
29 Jan 2024
Hashara Kumarasinghe joins our group as a PhD student
22 Jan 2024
Minh awarded Highly Cited Researcher 2023
01 Dec 2023
Field Leader in Evolutionary Biology for Minh
08 Nov 2023
Minh awarded Eureka Prize 2023
19 Jul 2023
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 2022 award
01 Nov 2022
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 2021 award
03 Sep 2021
Simons-Moore Foundation grant
01 Sep 2020
ARC discovery project 2020 award
04 Dec 2019
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 2019 award
15 Nov 2019
How to join us
03 Apr 2024
PhD position in phylogenomic inference
28 Sep 2020
C++ software developer for IQ-TREE
16 Dec 2019