Ali Ijaz

Brief description

Ali Ijaz is a PhD candidate at Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment. His thesis title is .A bioinformatics pipeline for improved analysis of shotgun metagenomic data. and his research projects focuses on the development of bioinformatics approaches/tools for rapid and accurate taxonomical and functional annotation of NGS metagenomics data, hypothesizing that a weighted approach utilizing local 16SrRNA evolutionary conservation information could improve phylogenetic resolution and taxonomical classification of shotgun metagenomics reads. For functional classification, a hybrid approach combining protein motifs, domains, active sites along with homology mapping will improve the speed of analysis as well as predict novel genes.