Research Interests for John Harer

Professor Harer's primary research is in the use of geometric, combinatorial and computational techniques to study a variety of problems in data analysis, shape recognition, image segmentation, plant root architecture, biological networks and gene expression.

Current projects:

Systems Biology

Computational Topology

Statistical Topology

Self-Healing Networks

Network Inference

Geometric Image Analysis

Areas of Interest:

Computational Biology
Computational Topology
Dynamics on Networks
Algorithms

Recent Publications

1. Katherine Turner, Yuriy Mileyko, Sayan Mukherjee and John Hare, Fréchet Means for Distributions of Persistence diagrams, arXiv:1206.2790 [math.ST] (Preprint, 2012) [abs]
2. T. Galkovskyi, Y. Mileyko, A. Bucksch, B. Moore, O. Symonova, C. Price, C. Topp, A. Iyer-Pascuzzi, P. Zurek, S. Fang, J. Harer, P. Benfey and J. Weitz, GiA Roots: software for the high throughput analysis of plant root system architecture, BMC Plant Biology, vol. 12 no. 116 (2012) [abs]
3. Christopher N Topp, Anjali S Iyer-Pascuzzi, Jill T Anderson, Cheng-Ruei Lee, Paul R Zurek, Olga Symonova, Ying Zheng, Alexander Bucksch, Yuriy Milyeko, Taras Galkovskyi, Brad Moore, John Harer, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Thomas Mitchell Olds, Joshua S Weitz, Philip N Benfey, 3-dimensional phenotyping of growing root systems combined with QTL mapping identifies core regions of the rice genome controlling root architecture, Nature Biotechnology (Submitted, 2012)
4. Anastasia Deckard, Ron C. Anafi, John B. Hogenesch, Steven B. Haase, John Harer, Design and Analysis of Large-Scale Biological Rhythm Studies: A Comparison of Algorithms for Detecting Periodic Signals in Biological Data, PLOS Computational Biology (Submitted, 2012) [abs]
5. Anastasia Deckard, Jurgen Sladeczek, David A. Orlando, Steven B. Haase and John Harer, Biochronicity Website: Sharing the results of running periodicity detection algorithms on biological data (Submitted, 2012) [abs]