Graph Algorithms and Bioinformatics

We are a research group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki, lead by Prof. Alexandru Tomescu. Our research is focused on graph algorithms, from both a theoretical perspective, and a practical perspective motivated by real-world problems in Bioinformatics, such as genome sequencing technologies.

We also study related algorithmic topics, such as combinatorial optimization, enumeration algorithms, string algorithms. Our main application area is Bioinformatics, where we work on various assembly problems of high-throughput sequencing data, pan-genomics, protein evolution.