Firoz Anwar

Research Interests

• Data Analytics
• Data Science
• Machine Learning
• Bioinformatics
• Computational Biology
• Networking

Journal Publications

• Akira Gokool, Firoz Anwar, Irina Voineagu, “The Landscape of Circular RNA Expression in the Human Brain”, Biological Psychiatry 2020 Feb 1;87(3):294-304, DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.07.029. [Impact Factor: 11.501]
• ST Bradford, SS Nair, AL Statham, SJ van Dijk, TJ Peters, F Anwar et al., “Methylome and transcriptome maps of human visceral and subcutaneous adipocytes reveal key epigenetic differences at developmental genes”, Scientific Reports – Nature 2019 vol. 9 (1): 9511, 1-13, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-45777-w [Impact Factor: 4.525]
• Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Firoz Anwar, Shafagh A. Waters, Miles P. Davenport and Diako Ebrahimi, “Source of CpG Depletion in the HIV-1 Genome”, Molecular Biology and Evolution 2016 Sep 28, DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msw205 [Impact Factor: 13.649]
• Firoz Anwar, Miles P. Davenport and Diako Ebrahimi, “Footprint of APOBEC3 on the Genome of Human Retroelements”, J. Virology July 2013 vol. 87 no. 14: 8195-8204. [Impact Factor: 5.076]
• Diako Ebrahimi, Firoz Anwar* and Miles P. Davenport, “APOBEC3G and APOBEC3F rarely co-mutate the same HIV genome”, Retrovirology December 2012 vol. 9 no. 113. [* Equal contributing author] [Impact Factor: 4.19]
• Diako Ebrahimi, Firoz Anwar and Miles P. Davenport, “APOBEC3 Has Not Left an Evolutionary Footprint on the HIV-1 Genome”, J. Virology September 2011 vol. 85 no. 17: 9139-9146. [Impact Factor: 5.076]
• Firoz Anwar, Syed Murtuza Baker, Taskeed Jabid, Md. Mehedi Hasan, Md. Shoyaib, Haseena Khan and Ray Walshe, “Pol II promoter prediction using characteristic 4-mer motifs: a machine learning approach”, BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:414. [Impact Factor: 2.672]

Conference Publications

• Firoz Anwar, Syed Murtuza Baker, Mohammad Shoyaib, Taskeed Jabid and Md. Mehedi Hasan, “Identification of Gene using Machine Learning Technique”, Accepted in BIOCOMP’2008, The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science Computer Engineering and Applied Computing, Las Vegas, USA.
• Taskeed Jabid, Mohammad Shoyaib, Syed Murtuza Baker, Firoz Anwar and Md. Mehedi Hasan, “Protein-Protein Interaction Detection from Primary Structure using Support Vector Machine”, Accepted in BIOCOMP’2008, The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science Computer Engineering and Applied Computing, Las Vegas, USA.
• Firoz Anwar, Taskeed Jabid, Syed Murtuza Baker and Mohammad Shoyaib, "A Stochastic approach for the Identification of Plant Promoter containing TATA box using Support Vector Machine", MMU International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies (M2USIC’07), Malaysia. Proc. of 19th – 20th November 2007.
• Mohammad Shoyaib, Syed Murtuza Baker, Taskeed Jabid, Firoz Anwar and Haseena Khan, "Protein secondary structure prediction with high accuracy using Support Vector Machine", ICCIT 2007, 2007 International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT-2007) at UIU, Bangladesh. Proc. of 27th – 29th December 2007.
• Taskeed Jabid, Firoz Anwar, Syed Murtaza Baker and Mohammad Shoyaib, "Identification of promoter through Stochastic approach", ICCIT 2007, 2007 International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT-2007). Proc. of 27th – 29th December 2007. Available through IEEEXplore.

Conference Presentations

• Firoz Anwar, 2015 Australian Genomics Technologies Association: October 11 - 14, 2015
  “Gene Ontology enrichment analysis for gene subsets of distinctive function.”
• Firoz Anwar, 2015 The Australian Bioinformatics And Computational Biology Society (ABACBS): October 9 - 10, 2015
  “Gene Ontology enrichment analysis for gene subsets of distinctive function.”
• Firoz Anwar, 2015 Bioinformatics FOAM: February 10 - 13, 2015
  “Comparison of RNA-Seq data from different Adipocytes depot using NGSANE pipeline and several differential gene expression analysis methods Firoz Anwar.”
• Firoz Anwar, 2012 Keystone Symposia: Cell Biology of Virus Entry, Replication and Pathogenesis (Canada), March 26 - 31, 2012
  “Investigating the evolutionary footprint of APOBEC3G and 3F on human endogenous retroelements.”