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Scott Hazelhurst completed his BScHons and MSc degrees atWits,
and his PhD at the University of British Columbia. Currently he
is Acting Director of Bioinformatics at the University of the
Witwatersrand, as well as being an Associate Professor in the School of
Electrical and Information Engineering.
Responsible for the Computational Molecular Biology Research
Programme, which has a strong algorithm and data structure design
focus. At the moment the main focus is exploring problems which are
very expensive, particularly taking into account large data sets. Key
projects are:
- EST clustering: looking at the design of a key algorithm in
genome or DNA sequence assembly. The work has strong theoretical and
engineering components. Our group also works with biologists who are
using EST clustering as part of their work.
- Parallelisation of algorithms using Linux clusters.
- Applications of machine learning and intelligent agents,
- Grid computing, and open source software development.
- S. Hazelhurst. Scientific computing using virtual
high-performance computing: a case study using the Amazon Elastic
Computing Cloud. To appear: Proceedings of SAICSIT 2008,
October 2008.
- S. Hazelhurst. Algorithms for clustering EST sequences: the
wcd tool. South African Computer Journal, 40, June
2008. pp. 51-62.
- S. Hazelhurst, W Hide, Z. Liptak, R. Nogueira, R.
Starfield. An overview of the wcd EST clustering tool. Bioinformatics.
24(13), July, pp. 1542-1546. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn203.
Prof
Scott Hazelhurst,
Tel: +27 11 717 6181
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