Molecular Systematics Laboratories
At the American Museum of Natural History
Vinh Sy Le:
(E-mail: vle@amnh.org)
Professional history:
Education:
2003-2005: PhD student at John von Neumann Institute for Computing, Research Center Juelich and Bioinformatics Institute,Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany.
1998-2002: Bachelor of computer science at Vietnam National University,Hanoi.
Awards:
2001: Young representative of Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
1998: Gold medal at International Olympiad in Informatics in Portugal.
1998: Gold medal at Vietnam National Olympiad in Informatics.
Employments:
2005-present: American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, US
2003-2005: John von Neumann Institute for Computing, Research Center Juelich, Germany.
2002-2003: The Faculty of Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
Publications:
Le Sy Vinh, Andres Varon and Ward C. Wheeler (2006), Pairwise alignment with rearrangements, Genome Informatics, 17(2):141-151.
Si Quang Le, Tu Bao Ho, Le Sy Vinh (2006), Association-based dissimilarity measures for categorical data:limitation and improvement,
In Proceeding of 10th Pacific-Asian Conference on Knowledge and Data Mining: 493-498.
Bui Quang Minh, Le Sy Vinh, Arndt von Haeseler and Heiko A. Schmidt (2005), pIQPNNI-Parallel reconstruction of large maximum likelihood
phylogenies, Bioinformatics, 21:3794-3796.
Le Sy Vinh and Arndt von Haeseler (2005), Shortest triplet clustering: reconstructing large phylogenies using representative sets, BMC
Bioinformatics, 6:92.
Le Sy Vinh, Heiko A. Schmidt, Arndt von Haeseler (2005), PhyNav: a novel approach to reconstruct large phylogenies, In C. Weihs and W. Gaul (eds.)
Classification, the Ubiquitous Challenge, Series Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization:386-393.
Le Sy Vinh and Arndt von Haeseler (2004), IQPNNI: moving fast through tree space and stopping in time, Mol. Biol. Evol., 21(8):1565-1571.
Hoang Tuy, Nguyen Duc Nghia, Le Sy Vinh (2003), Efficient DC approach to maximin location and design centering problems, Vietnam Journal of
Mathematics, in press.
Hoang Tuy, Nguyen Duc Nghia, Le Sy Vinh (2003), A discrete location problem, ACTA Mathematica Vietnamica, 28(2):185-201.
Software Packages:
IQPNNI: Constructing the evolutionary relationship among contemporary species from large DNA, amino acid and protein-coding DNA datasets based onmaximum likelihood principle.
Both sequential and parallel versions of IQPNNI can be downloaded from"http://www.bi.uni-duesseldorf.de/software/iqpnni/".
PHYNAV: A novel method to build large phylogenies from genetic datasets based on maximum likelihood principle.
PHYNAV is available at "http://www.bi.uni-duesseldorf.de/software/phynav/.
STC: Constructing extremely large distance-based phylogenies. STC is able to build a tree with 5000 sequences in a minute.
STC can be downloaded from "http://www.bi.uni-duesseldorf.de/software/stc/".