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Manuel Lafond
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Research
Latest papers
Polyploidy Arithmetic.
Bulletin of mathematical biology · 2026 · first author
From Small Parsimony to Horizontal Gene Transfer: Inferring Horizontal Transfer and Gene Loss for Single-Origin Characters.
Journal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology · 2026 · senior author
Beyond Synteny: A Scalable Phylogenomics Method for Whole-Genome Duplication Detection.
Journal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology · 2026
Latest funding
- $90,000
Novel Metrics for the Comparison of Phylogenetic Networks
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $25,000
A Bioinformatics Framework to Understand the Fate of Duplicated Genes in Evolution
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $12,500
Accurate prediction and classification of orthologous genes
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
21 publications.
Polyploidy Arithmetic.
Lafond M, Huber KT, Moulton V
From Small Parsimony to Horizontal Gene Transfer: Inferring Horizontal Transfer and Gene Loss for Single-Origin Characters.
López Sánchez A, Scholz GE, Stadler PF, Lafond M
Beyond Synteny: A Scalable Phylogenomics Method for Whole-Genome Duplication Detection.
Kalhor R, Lafond M, Scornavacca C
Finding maximum common contractions between phylogenetic networks.
Marchand B, Tahiri N, Fard SG, Tremblay-Savard O, Lafond M
The path-label reconciliation (PLR) dissimilarity measure for gene trees.
Sánchez AL, Ramírez-Rafael JA, Flores-Lamas A, Hernández-Rosales M, Lafond M
A Rigorous Framework to Classify the Postduplication Fate of Paralogous Genes.
Kalhor R, Beslon G, Lafond M, Scornavacca C
Median and small parsimony problems on RNA trees.
Marchand B, Anselmetti Y, Lafond M, Ouangraoua A
A Fixed-Parameter Tractable Algorithm for Finding Agreement Cherry-Reduced Subnetworks in Level-1 Orchard Networks.
Landry K, Tremblay-Savard O, Lafond M
Predicting horizontal gene transfers with perfect transfer networks.
López Sánchez A, Lafond M
Relative timing information and orthology in evolutionary scenarios.
Schaller D, Hartmann T, Lafond M, Stadler PF, Wieseke N, Hellmuth M
Novel Metrics for the Comparison of Phylogenetic Networks
Principal investigators: Lafond, Manuel M
Keywords: algorithms; bioinformatics; computatonal complexity; evolution; fungal pathgens; metrics; phylogenetic networks; software development
A Bioinformatics Framework to Understand the Fate of Duplicated Genes in Evolution
Principal investigators: Lafond, Manuel M
Accurate prediction and classification of orthologous genes
Principal investigators: Lafond, Manuel
Accurate prediction and classification of orthologous genes
Principal investigators: Lafond, Manuel
Keywords: bioinformatics; orthologous genes; phylogenetics; approximation algorithms; fixed-parameter algorithms; graph theory; evolutionary biology; gene trees and species trees; gene duplication; graph clustering
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Manuel Lafond and Olivier Tremblay-Savard: 2 shared papers
- Manuel Lafond and Cedric Chauve: 1 shared paper
- Manuel Lafond and Nadia El-Mabrouk: 1 shared paper
- Manuel Lafond and Nadia Tahiri: 1 shared paper
- Olivier Tremblay-Savard and Nadia Tahiri: 1 shared paper
- Computer Science
- Département d'informatique
- Mathematics
- Informatique et recherche opérationnelle
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