Qin Ma

Contact Information:

Computational Systems Biology laboratory (CSBL)
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
A134, Davison Life Sciences Building
The University of Georgia,
Athens, GA 30602
Phone: (706)254-4293
Fax: (706)542-9751
Email: maqin at csbl dot bmb dot uga dot edu

School of Mathematics
No.27 Shanda Nanlu
Shandong University
Jinan Shandong 250100
P. R. China
Phone: 13589031421
Email: maqin2001 at hotmail dot com

Research Interests:

• Bioinformatics.
• Graph Theory and Application.
• Algorithm Design and Computing Complexity.

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Education

• 2001.09-2005.07. Bachelor Degree in Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematics, Shandong University.
• 2005.09-now. Ph.D in Operations Research, School of Mathematics, Shandong University.
• 2008.10-now. Visiting student in Computational Systems Biology laboratory, University of Georgia.

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Professional Activities

• Member, The 5th International Bioinformatics Workshop, 2007, Weihai, China.
• Member, The 6th International Bioinformatics Workshop, 2008, Kunming, China.
• Speaker, The 8th Annual International Conference on Computational Systems Bioinformatics, 2009, Stanford University, USA.
  
• Reviewer, BIOINFORMATICS conference, 2010, Valencia, Spain.
  

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Publications:

1. Qin Ma, The degree-constrained k-arboricity of outerplanar graphs, Journal of Shandong university, 2007,42 (10): 41-43.

2. Qin Ma, Jian-liang Wu, Xiao Yu, Planar graphs without 5-cycles or 6-cycles, Discrete Mathematics, doi:10.1016/j.disc.2008.07.033

3. Qin Ma, Jian-liang Wu, Jian-feng Hou, The Linear Arboricity of Planar Graphs without 6-cycles, submitted to Graphs and Combinatorics

4. Guojun Li, Qin Ma, Haibao Tang, Andrew H. Paterson, Ying Xu, QUBIC: A Qualitative Biclustering Algorithm for Analyses of Gene Expression Data, Nucleic Acides Research, 2009.06.09, 1-10, doi:10.1093/nar/gkp491

5. Guojun Li, Qin Ma, Bingqiang Liu, Haibao Tang, Andrew H. Paterson, Ying Xu, A Close-to Optimum Bi-clustering Algorithm for Microarray Gene Expression Data, CSB 2009, 082Li

6. Guojun Li, Bingqiang Liu, Qin Ma, Ying Xu, Identifying cis Regulatory Motifs at Genome Scale in Prokaryotes using BOBRO, Submitted

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The sofrwares I am involved in:

1. QUBIC (A Biclustering Tool for Microarray Data)
   

2. BoBro (A Bottle-neck Broken Tool for Motif Finding)

3. The web server of QUBIC

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The problems I am working on:

1. Cis-regulatory motif could be computationally recognized at genome scale

2. The prediction of new transcriptional regulatory network of E.coli by QUBIC (Thesis Topic)

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Hobbies:

1. Basketball The NBA players I like best are Shaquille O'Neal and Tim Duncan..
2. GouJi A kind of way of Playing Poker, need 6 players and 4 pokers, originated in Shandong.

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