Abstract
We have recently developed a DNA sequence assembly program (PCAP) and used PCAP to assemble a mouse whole-genome data set of 30 million sequences on a cluster of Compaq computers. In this talk, I will describe the PCAP program and present assembly results produced by PCAP on the mouse data.

Bio
Xiaoqiu Huang earned his Master's and Doctoral degrees in computer science at Pennsylvania State University. He was on the faculty at Michigan Technological University from 1990 to 1999. Before coming to Iowa State, he was Associate Professor at the Keck Graduate Institute of Life Sciences in Claremont, Calif. and Principal Scientist at Paracel Inc. in Pasadena. Dr. Huang is Associate Professor at ISU's Computer Science Department and the Plant Institute's Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics.

Dr. Huang's research in bioinformatics focuses on three computational problems in genome sequencing and analysis; (1) assembly of DNA fragments into longer sequences, (2)identification of genes in genomic DNA sequences, and (3) comparison of genomic DNA sequences.