PhD. Candidate
Advisor: Olga Troyanskaya
Department of Computer Science
Princeton University
E-mail: cypark (at) cs.princeton.edu

Research Interests

I am interested in bioinformatics and systems biology. My current research involves computational modeling of biological processes and pathways.

Education

Publications:

  • Functional knowledge transfer for high-accuracy prediction of under-studied biological processes
    Christopher Y. Park*, Aaron K. Wong*, Casey S. Greene*, Jessica Rowland, Yuanfang Guan, Rebecca D. Burdine and Olga G. Troyanskaya
    PLoS Computational Biology, March 2013

  • IMP: a multi-species functional genomics portal for integration, visualization and prediction of protein functions and networks
    Aaron K. Wong*, Christopher Y. Park*, Casey S. Greene*, Lars A. Bongo, Yuanfang Guan and Olga G. Troyanskaya
    Nucleic Acids Research, July 2012.

  • Simultaneous genome-wide inference of physical, genetic, regulatory and functional pathway components
    Christopher Y. Park, David C. Hess, Curtis Huttenhower and Olga Troyanskaya.
    PLoS Computational Biology, Nov. 2010

  • Statistical calibration of the SEQUEST XCorr function
    Aaron A. Klammer, Christopher Y. Park and William Stafford Noble
    Journal of Proteome Research, Mar. 2009

  • Rapid and accurate peptide identification from tandem mass spectra
    Christopher Y. Park*, Aaron A. Klammer*, Lukas Käll, Michael J. MacCoss and William Stafford Noble
    Journal of Proteome Research, May 2008

  • Improved candidate peptide generation using a precomputed peptide database
    Christopher Y. Park, Aaron A. Klammer and William Stafford Noble
    Poster presented at the 55th American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference (ASMS), June 2007, Indianapolis, USA

Software

  • IMP - IMP is a multi-species functional genomics web portal for integration, visualization and prediction of protein functions and networks.

  • Crux - Software toolkit for tandem mass spectrometry analysis, with a focus on peptide identification.

Teaching

Computer Science Teaching Assistant at Princeton University

  • COS 126 - General Computer Science - with Kevin Wayne, Sprint 2009
  • COS 109 - Computers in Our World - with Brian Kernighan, Fall 2008