RajeevAzadProfessor- BioinformaticsBiochemistry and Molecular Biology,FacultyRajeev.Azad@unt.edu940-369-5078LIFE B314

Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyFaculty http://bioinformatics.unt.edu/people/faculty Google Scholar; PubMed Dr. Azad's research interests lie in the broad areas of bioinformatics and computational biology, including computational genomics and transcriptomics, genome evolution, pathogenomics, metagenomics, and network biology. Degrees: Doctor of Philosophy, Mathematical Modeling of Nonlinear Biological and Physical Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Master of Philosophy, Mathematical Modeling of Nonlinear Biological and Physical Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Selected Publications: The following are Dr. Azad's recent publications: De R, Whiteley M, Azad RK. A gene network-driven approach to infer novel pathogenicity-associated genes: application to Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. mSystems. 2023 Dec 21;8(6):e00473-23. Burks DJ, Pusadkar V, Azad RK. POSMM: an efficient alignment-free metagenomic profiler that complements alignment-based profiling. Environmental Microbiome. 2023 Dec;18(1):1-3. Sengupta S, Azad RK. Leveraging comparative genomics to uncover alien genes in bacterial genomes. Microbial Genomics. 2023;9(1). Gore S, Azad RK. CancerNet: a unified deep learning network for pan-cancer diagnostics. BMC bioinformatics. 2022 Dec;23(1):1-7. Sengupta S, Azad RK. Reconstructing horizontal gene flow network to understand prokaryotic evolution. Open Biology. 2022 Nov 30;12(11):220169. Burks DJ, Azad RK. Mapping Strengths and Weaknesses of Different Clustering Approaches to Deciphering Bacterial Chimerism. OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology. 2022 Aug 1;26(8):422-39. Burks DJ, Sengupta S, De R, Mittler R, Azad RK. The Arabidopsis gene co‐expression network. Plant Direct. 2022 Apr;6(4):e396. Sunuwar J, Azad RK. A machine learning framework to predict antibiotic resistance traits and yet unknown genes underlying resistance to specific antibiotics in bacterial strains. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 2021 Nov;22(6):bbab179. Dixson JD, Azad RK. A novel predictor of ACE2-binding ability among betacoronaviruses. Evolution, medicine, and public health. 2021 Jan 1;9(1):360-73. Burks DJ, Azad RK. Higher-order Markov models for metagenomic sequence classification. Bioinformatics. 2020 Jul 15;36(14):4130-6. Zandalinas SI, Fichman Y, Devireddy AR, Sengupta S, Azad RK, Mittler R. Systemic signaling during abiotic stress combination in plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2020 Jun 16;117(24):13810-20. Jani M, Azad RK. IslandCafe: compositional anomaly and feature enrichment assessment for delineation of genomic islands. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 2019 Oct 1;9(10):3273-85.