I am a fourth-year graduate student at the Department of Computer Science, Rice University. I joined the Bioinformatics Group, headed by Professor Luay K. Nakhleh, in January 2006.

I was born and grew up in Việt Nam. My full name in Vietnamese is Thân Văn Cường. I did my undergraduate work at Hanoi University of Technology. In 2005, I was awarded a fellowship from the Vietnam Education Foundation to study in the U.S.

Research

My research interests are in the area of bioinformatics, particularly phylogenetics.

Publications

• C. Than, D. Ruths, and L. Nakhleh, "PhyloNet: A Software Package for Analyzing and Reconstructing Reticulate Evolutionary Relationships." BMC Bioinformatics. In press, 2008.
• C. Than, G. Jin, and L. Nakhleh, "Integrating Sequence and Topology for Efficient and Accurate Detection of Horizontal Gene Transfer." Proceedings of the Sixth RECOMB Comparative Genomics Satellite Workshop. In press, 2008.
• I. Kanj, L. Nakhleh, C. Than, and G. Xia, "Seeing the Trees and Their Branches in the Network is Hard." Theoretical Computer Science (TCS). In press, 2008.
• C. Than, R. Sugino, H. Innan, and L. Nakhleh, "Efficient Inference of Bacterial Strain Trees from Genome-scale Multi-locus Data." The 16th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB). In press, 2008.
• C. Than and L. Nakhleh, "SPR-based Tree Reconciliation: Non-binary Trees and Multiple Solutions." Proceedings of the Sixth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC), 251–260, 2008.
• I. Kanj, L. Nakhleh, C. Than, and G. Xia, "Seeing the Trees and Their Branches in the Network is Hard." Proceedings of the Tenth Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS), 82–93, 2007.
• C. Than, D. Ruths, H. Innan, and L. Nakhleh, "Confounding Factors in HGT Detection: Statistical Error, Coalescent Effects, and Multiple Solutions." Journal of Computational Biology, 14(4): 517–535, 2007.
• C. Than, D. Ruths, H. Innan, and L. Nakhleh, "Identifiability issues in the phylogenetic-based detection of horizontal gene transfer." Proceedings of the Fourth RECOMB Comparative Genomics Satellite Workshop. Lectures Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI 4205), 215–229, 2006.
• B. Nguyen, C. Than, P. Nguyen, and B. Ho, "A mixed similarity measure for data with numeric, symbolic and ordinal attributes." IEIC (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) Technical Report, 104: 67–72, 2004.

Contact

Office: 3117 Duncan Hall
Office phone: (713) 348-3843
E-mail: cvthan@cs.rice.edu

Web Links

• Bioinformatics Group's Wiki
• The Who's Who of Phylogenetic Networks
• Photos of Việt Nam

this page was last updated on 2008/09/04